From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs not finding Xdefaults
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:25:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <301D1F2A-2975-4137-887A-8FD03AEF5713@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <270f3bf5-054b-4cb7-a612-d387e20c72f6@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com>
Am 07.12.2007 um 04:54 schrieb rustom:
> Well the problem recurred and I tried this but this did not work.
> What worked was a. xrdb < .Xdefaults followed by reboot (logout not
> enough)
This is pretty useless. And this substitutes all X resource settings
valid until then to those in the .Xdefaults file. And they're then
are only valid till the reboot ...
Could these commands help you?
man xrdb
man xinit
man startx
--
Greetings
Pete
Clovis' Consideration of an Atmospheric Anomaly:
The perversity of nature is nowhere better demonstrated
than by the fact that, when exposed to the same atmosphere,
bread becomes hard while crackers become soft.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-07 9:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-28 14:10 emacs not finding Xdefaults rustom
2007-11-28 15:00 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.4248.1196262037.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-28 15:42 ` rustom
2007-11-28 20:07 ` James Cloos
[not found] ` <mailman.4270.1196280526.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-29 14:13 ` rustom
2007-12-07 3:54 ` rustom
2007-12-07 9:25 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2007-12-07 17:11 ` reader
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