From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Help Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 03:30:18 -0600 Message-ID: <20160509032222524260391@bob.proulx.com> References: <8760uokqg4.fsf@debian.uxu> <87r3dbtyfw.fsf@ddej.ddeb.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1462786664 823 80.91.229.3 (9 May 2016 09:37:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 09:37:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 09 11:37:39 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1azhdC-0008FA-4Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 11:37:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40269 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1azhdB-000676-In for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 05:37:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39448) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1azhWC-0000Ws-J0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 05:30:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1azhW8-0007OD-9C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 05:30:23 -0400 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:35936) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1azhW7-0007O9-L9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2016 05:30:20 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01CD0954 for ; Mon, 9 May 2016 03:30:19 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EA7F21845 for ; Mon, 9 May 2016 03:30:18 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7FF712E7E5; Mon, 9 May 2016 03:30:18 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r3dbtyfw.fsf@ddej.ddeb.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.0 (2016-04-01) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109905 Archived-At: Dejan Jocic wrote: > ... it does not load it from either ~/.emacs nor from > ~/.emacs.d/init.el. This sounds very odd. It should load ~/.emacs at the least. If it were me I would put a message in the file to verify this. Right at the top I would put this. (message "[reading file ~/.emacs]") ; -*-emacs-lisp-*- > It did load it from ~/.emacs on my previous > installs, both Debian Wheezy and Debian Jessie with Gnome 3 as > DE. Then, for some experimenting, I've did fresh install of Debian > Jessie with KDE and it did not work. I'm now back on Gnome 3, but it > still does not work. I must do eval-buffer on it every time after > start. Exactly how are you starting emacs? I assume by what you say that you are using the X graphical version and not the terminal version. Have you tried starting it from a command line prompt? Does it report any errors to the terminal? > There is one more annoying thing with it. When I start Emacs > with shortcut keys, it reads my ~/.Xresources. But when I start it > from that Gnome 3 dash where favorite apps are, it does not. Xterm > reads same ~/.Xresources in both cases. This doesn't actually follow. The ~/.Xresources is not actually read by any X application. Instead the window manager uses 'xrdb' to load the contents into the X resource database. X programs then subsequently query that database. You can ump the database with: xrdb -q Perhaps in one case versus the other your DE isn't loading the file? Or perhaps the "name" is being changed and therefore not matching the stored resource names? Bob