From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: reader@newsguy.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs not finding Xdefaults Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:11:18 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87r6hya0qx.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <270f3bf5-054b-4cb7-a612-d387e20c72f6@e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197047538 8410 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2007 17:12:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 17:12:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 07 18:12:28 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 1J0gkF-0005u7-GY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:12:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0gjy-0000TZ-Ds for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:11:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0gje-0000QP-IC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:11:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0gjc-0000ME-Sj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:11:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0gjc-0000Lw-HA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:11:32 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J0gjb-0007sV-Rd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:11:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J0gjW-0001Pv-3o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:11:26 +0000 Original-Received: from adsl-75-3-65-96.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net ([75.3.65.96]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:11:26 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by adsl-75-3-65-96.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:11:26 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-75-3-65-96.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AxuTu5b76s+UQWBTLF/S39vbgTo= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:49912 Archived-At: rustom writes: >> On Nov 29, 1:07 am, James Cloos wrote: >> >> > I usually keep a symlink ~/.Xdefaults-$(hostname) pointing to .Xdefaults >> > to make management easier. >> > On Nov 29, 7:13 pm, rustom wrote: >> Well I can do that.... >> ... the next time I have a similar problem I'll try this. > > 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) > > What triggered? Dunno but I think it was having one system firefox > (iceape actually) interleaved with the newest firefox 3 alpha5. Not sure if this might be true on debian but on some linux distros the .Xdefaults file became obsolete in favor of .[Xx]resources some time back. I symlink an ~/.Xresources file to ~/.Xdefaults so both bases are covered. (ln -s ~/.Xdefaults ~/.Xresources - just on the off chance you didn't know how)