From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: .Xresources Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:36:42 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87tzkdtiid.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <87myq56gyd.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202888479 11951 80.91.229.12 (13 Feb 2008 07:41:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:41:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 13 08:41:42 2008 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 1JPCFH-00032W-SD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:41:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JPCEo-0006Mx-0X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:41:02 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-06!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ghjib3IkBVDwZu7HUWLo5mNLWEI= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 54 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156102 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:51477 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 12.02.2008 um 21:46 schrieb Sean Sieger: > >> If I have >> >> Emacs.pointerColor: red >> >> in my .Xresources, then why would it still be white? > > Because mine is red now! Although I have: > > Emacs*pointerColor: DarkOrchid4 > > Actually it's red in all my GNU Emacsen 23.0.x ... Looks like a bug. > > -- > Greetings > > Pete > > Claiming that the Macintosh is inferior to Windows because most people use > Windows, is like saying that all other restaurants serve food that is > inferior to McDonald's. > I have mine set to white and its white. This is in emacs 22.1 and CVS emacs The problem may be related to how your .Xresources is loaded (i.e. xrdb load versus xrdb merge) and how you define the resource e.g. Emacs.pointerColor versus emacs.pointerColor versus Emacs*ponterColor etc. I'd try an xrdb load and see if that helps (working from memory, but I think when you do a merge, your local .Xresources won't override a more 'specific' setting that may be in a site wide app-defaults file. Check the manual for xrdb - its been a long time since I last read it and I could easily be wrong. Other possible causes - - Some window managers can override things - notably KDE - .emacs settings will override .Xresources I think because they are loaded last. Maybe there is a setting in there - Using the color themes package with a theme that sets the pointer - color. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au