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: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:25:35 +0100 Message-ID: <301D1F2A-2975-4137-887A-8FD03AEF5713@Web.DE> References: <270f3bf5-054b-4cb7-a612-d387e20c72f6@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197019572 3017 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2007 09:26:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:26:12 +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 Fri Dec 07 10:26:21 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 1J0ZTQ-0007jH-Km for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:26:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0ZT9-00081f-2C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:26:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0ZSr-00081X-Rc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:25:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0ZSq-000810-4g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:25:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0ZSq-00080x-1j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:25:44 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J0ZSp-0005vx-R3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:25:44 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp06.web.de (fmsmtp06.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.172]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D47BFB7A1235; Fri, 7 Dec 2007 10:25:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [195.4.207.12] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp06.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.108 #208) id 1J0ZSo-0003Ke-00; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:25:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: <270f3bf5-054b-4cb7-a612-d387e20c72f6@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18fvfEe/wZBLmhAr8c2lHRGbBH+7B+3S2Y/OLOR WD3QaVfYy7xaV4N0wsfYWLGrfAnMnX28NKxtMc4/7LwnGJUTfF ohbUxOB1GweNLq2//SEw== 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:49907 Archived-At: 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.