From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs not finding Xdefaults Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:00:31 +0100 Message-ID: <16AFE014-7B11-4B4B-B23D-5E95E57A2E9E@Web.DE> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196262088 8494 80.91.229.12 (28 Nov 2007 15:01:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:01:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rustom Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 28 16:01:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IxOPV-00058k-MJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:01:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IxOPG-0002EO-2t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:00:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IxOOy-0002Dm-By for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:00:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IxOOw-0002DQ-Vz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:00:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IxOOw-0002DK-Js for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:00:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IxOOw-0007iv-H3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:00:34 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp07.web.de (fmsmtp07.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.215]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B09B8B40A057; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:00:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [195.4.210.221] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp07.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.108 #208) id 1IxOOv-00045N-00; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:00:33 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18FluThYdOPYBZ6xQKH6r9s/L2YKW6D1V0bWWsn 9FGtTtqHpzD3xQ8MPUmJ+ZXYWIQl2DQatp/uBQg5PTw9rztG6d 27GprPBKDFIh8GyvJMKw== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49637 Archived-At: Am 28.11.2007 um 15:10 schrieb rustom: > Strangely when X starts it does not use these settings but if I start > emacs-snapshot-gtk from the shell it finds them. There should be some file that starts the X session, a file like =20 ~/.xinitrc. One of the statements inside should be xrdb -merge $userresources before the first X client is launched, where $userresources could =20 also be an explicite file name. This way your X resource settings =20 should be present for all X clients, including GNU Emacs. If you determine the process ID of an X client that was launched at =20 startup (xterm, maybe), the could invoke pstree -w -p