From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Running emacs without any customisation Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 07:18:32 +0300 Message-ID: References: <878rlkrj9y.fsf@web.de> <87zge0q2u1.fsf@web.de> <87r0zc4vf8.fsf@web.de> <7HiwKI9ptNll3M2bOs3ZkSdNAwhZVriIna8lWb4iFHq8HXpm2snZJVHjpxj5gq5GSaaq5OjY5vE-8j7ZECzKIdcDJjzPR5m4mOs7B9mkfOQ=@proton.me> <25415.62398.875956.404085@tux.local> <87fsfrn01d.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29962"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.2.7+37 (a90f69b) (2022-09-02) Cc: Michael Heerdegen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 14 07:17:21 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ojD4S-0007ay-QD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2022 07:17:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46930 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ojD4R-000398-Ao for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2022 01:17:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ojD2G-0002Vm-1W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2022 01:15:04 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:56865) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ojD2C-0002eK-QL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2022 01:15:02 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.5.18]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000056163.000000006348F053.00002BBD; Thu, 13 Oct 2022 22:14:59 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Dimech , Michael Heerdegen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139924 Archived-At: * Christopher Dimech [2022-10-13 20:57]: > Simply querying the x-resource database is an emacs design mistake. > Almost sure that emacs will continue propagating this mistake. For your understanding: Most X clients use the RESOURCE_MANAGER and SCREEN_RESOURCES properties to get user preferences about color, fonts, and so on for applications. Having this information in the server (where it is available to all clients) instead of on disk, solves the problem in previous versions of X that required you to maintain defaults files on every machine that you might use. It also allows for dynamic changing of defaults without editing files. The RESOURCE_MANAGER property is used for resources that apply to all screens of the display. The SCREEN_RESOURCES property on each screen specifies additional (or overriding) resources to be used for that screen. (When there is only one screen, SCREEN_RESOURCES is normally not used, all resources are just placed in the RESOURCE_MANAGER prop‐ erty.) X Window System is network system. Do not assume that each client has same size of monitor and that your Emacs will look same on every client. If user does not understand why to use X resources, and assumes to be single user, then don't use it. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/