Re: emacs not finding Xdefaults

[rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Nov 28, 8:00 pm, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> 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
> ~/.xinitrc. One of the statements inside should be
>
>         xrdb -merge $userresources
>
> before the first X client is launched, where $userresources could
> also be an explicite file name. This way your X resource settings
> should be present for all X clients, including GNU Emacs.
>
> If you determine the process ID of an X client that was launched at
> startup (xterm, maybe), the could invoke
>
>         pstree -w -p <that PID<
>
> and find out how your X session started.
>
> Besides this, are you sure that ``emacs-snapshot-gtk*font´´ is the
> right name? For me ``Emacs*font´´ is sufficient ...
>
> --
> Greetings
>
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Thanks for the detailed answer -- also for telling me about pstree --
very useful.

But now its working of itself!! All that I (think I)  did was reboot
the machine once inbetween. :-) ;-)
So I guess the asymptote of all OSes is windows