From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days? Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:44:17 +0100 Message-ID: <4A2BB621.201@harpegolden.net> References: <7b501d5c0906060758n3113b6cdr37a5635b389428b8@mail.gmail.com> <87ab4k3g04.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1244378735 16506 80.91.229.12 (7 Jun 2009 12:45:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 12:45:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 07 14:45:32 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MDHki-0002Pr-34 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:45:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44784 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MDHkh-00040z-9E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:45:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MDHjq-0003sc-UN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:44:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MDHjl-0003qs-14 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:44:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42124 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MDHjk-0003ql-Mh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:44:32 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:45403) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MDHjh-0003KT-Kn; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:44:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.47.208] (87-198-47-208.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.47.208]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32DBD825A; Sun, 7 Jun 2009 13:44:26 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090103) In-Reply-To: <87ab4k3g04.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111369 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > One thing which annoys me is that Emacs seems to ignore .Xdefaults if > there's anything in the server's xrdb database -- and recent versions of > gnome, put crap in the xrdb database without being asked to. > ? It was my understanding (which could be flawed) that applications never look at .Xdefaults, it's up to you to do an xrdb -merge .Xdefaults That happens once at login time automatically*, and if gnome or kde overwrite stuff post that time (as you say gnome does and kde can be optionally configured to, to partially apply your kde theme to non-kde applications, something that never works right of course, but in the kde case you can at least turn it off...), then it's up to you to re-merge ? * Usually by a script in e.g. (debian): /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources