From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Baloff Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: using Xresources for geometry Date: 28 Aug 2005 15:30:07 +1000 Organization: iPrimus Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@iprimus.com.au Message-ID: <8764tq39y8.fsf@wash.edu> References: <87wtm7n3hv.fsf@wash.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1125205911 26928 80.91.229.2 (28 Aug 2005 05:11:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 05:11:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 28 07:11:50 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9FRt-0000P1-73 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 07:11:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E9FVu-0007Ku-6b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Aug 2005 01:15:26 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.multikabel.nl!130.161.131.117.MISMATCH!tudelft.nl!txtfeed2.tudelft.nl!feeder.xsnews.nl!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.pacific.net.au!token.pipenetworks.com!218.100.2.58.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.50.176.241 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Original-Lines: 48 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.134.67.67 Original-X-Trace: 1125205545 un-2park-reader-02.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au 15502 203.134.67.67:4092 Original-X-Complaints-To: Abuse, including message IDs to abuse@pipenetworks.com Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:133508 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:29043 Archived-At: Angelina Carlton writes: > Baloff writes: > > > > > the last line I changed from 80x40 but no changes happened when I > > restarted emacs. > > Xresources is read once when you log into X. > Log in again to reread that file. > -- > -----Angelina Carlton----- > orchid on irc.freenode.net > brat@magma.ca > web:bzgirl.bakadigital.com > -------------------------- I am trying to move those functionality from Xresources to .emacs, those are I managed to put in my .emacs the following ************************************************************ (setq initial-frame-alist '((top . 10)(left . 30) (width . 90)(height . 50))) (setq default-frame-alist '((width . 80)(height . 45))) ************************************************************ but don't know how to do the rest of the options in the Xresources file which are emacs*Background: Black emacs*Foreground: White emacs*pointerColor: White emacs*cursorColor: White emacs*bitmapIcon: on emacs*font: fixed and then increase the size of the font because it is too small. any help is welcomed thanks