From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: setting site-wide default colors,fonts,... in Emacs Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:33:53 +0100 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84el81xdni.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1041161809 27184 80.91.224.249 (29 Dec 2002 11:36:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 11:36:49 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18SbkO-00074K-00 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 12:36:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18SbjP-0003hW-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 06:35:47 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd951f026.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pd951f026.dip.t-dialin.net (217.81.240.38) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1041161649 9032517 217.81.240.38 (16 [73968]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7kVepZFtpKfhOiLyDsGMQdIhaT4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108571 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5100 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5100 "Frank C. Weiler" writes: > I have gone through the documentaiton several times, and am not able > to locate WHERE the site wide default color scheme and default fonts > are established for any user. All X applications use a similar mechanism. In particular, the environment variables XUSERFILESEARCHPATH and XFILESEARCHPATH are evaled. You could also use strace (or trace or truss or ktrace, depending on OS) on an invocation of Emacs. Look for stat or open calls on files named Emacs (with capital E). -- Ambibibentists unite!