From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: emacs not finding Xdefaults Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:10:24 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196260857 3611 80.91.229.12 (28 Nov 2007 14:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:40:57 +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 Nov 28 15:40:56 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 1IxO5n-00048q-IU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:40:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IxO5Y-0005hx-4J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:40:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.47.90 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1196259024 598 127.0.0.1 (28 Nov 2007 14:10:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:10:24 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.47.90; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070508 Iceweasel/2.0.0.4 (Debian-2.0.0.4-0etch1), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Content-Disposition: inline Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154204 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:49634 Archived-At: I have a .Xdefaults file containing things like emacs-snapshot-gtk*Background: Wheat emacs-snapshot-gtk*font: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75- m-70-iso8859-1 I also have emacs-snapshot-gtk in my startup programs in gnome. Strangely when X starts it does not use these settings but if I start emacs-snapshot-gtk from the shell it finds them. The last time this happened when I ran xrdb < .Xdefaults the problem got corrected. This time no such luck. The only clue of what brought this on is that I edited .bashrc and introduced a syntax error. Even after removing it however the error is still there. System: debian etch