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From: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
Subject: Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:14:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zlcd1iia.fsf@lugabout.jhcloos.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <buoiqj7e1vi.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:22:09 +0900")

>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

Miles> The "rules" (by my observation) are a bit bizarre: If there's
Miles> _anything_ in the server's database, even entries for an
Miles> unrelated application, then ~/.Xdefaults is completely ignored,
Miles> and only entries from the server database are used; otherwise
Miles> ~/.Xdefaults is used.

After the above, then ~/.Xdefaults-$HOSTNAME is always read.

The idea is that ~/.Xdefaults-$HOSTNAME is for settings which are
specific to one client machine and the server's database for settings
which are specific to one server.  Reading ~/.Xdefaults is a backup
measure for the cases where the user does not have a $HOME on the
server.

Obviously this distinction is more useful when one has multiple boxen
with a shared /home (eg by nfs) and uses X over tcp.  (That was a very
common setup when the coding was done.)

This logic is in libX11, for those who'd like to read the src.

-JimC
-- 
James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6




  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-12 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-06 14:58 What is the proper way to set the default font these days? Deniz Dogan
2009-06-06 19:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-07  0:25   ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-07  3:00 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-07 12:44   ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-06-08  5:22     ` Miles Bader
2009-06-08 14:21       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-06-08 14:59         ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-08 15:50           ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-08 16:17             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-06-08 16:19               ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-08 16:28                 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-08 16:50                   ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-10  9:17                   ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-10 13:37                     ` Miles Bader
2009-06-10 14:08                       ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-10 15:52                     ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-10 15:59                       ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-29 11:44                       ` gtk toolbar bug (was Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?) Bruce Stephens
2009-06-29 17:49                         ` Deniz Dogan
2009-06-29 19:30                           ` gtk toolbar bug Bruce Stephens
2009-06-29 21:37                             ` Bruce Stephens
2009-06-30 14:42                               ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-01 14:10                                 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-01 15:25                                   ` Bruce Stephens
2009-06-08 22:15             ` What is the proper way to set the default font these days? Chad Brown
2009-06-08 22:40               ` David Reitter
2009-06-09  0:42                 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-10 22:07                   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-11  0:25                     ` Miles Bader
2009-06-09  3:04               ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-08 22:03       ` Johan Bockgård
2009-06-12 17:14       ` James Cloos [this message]
2009-06-12 21:00         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-15  3:29         ` Miles Bader
2009-07-01 22:35           ` Deniz Dogan
2009-07-02  6:44             ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-02  7:45               ` Deniz Dogan
2009-07-02  8:23                 ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-02  9:19                   ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-02 10:59                     ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-02 12:31                       ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-02  7:54               ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-02  8:02                 ` Deniz Dogan
2009-07-02 10:38                   ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-02 11:58                     ` Deniz Dogan
2009-07-21 15:14                 ` Bruce Stephens
2009-07-21 18:48                   ` Jan Djärv
2009-07-21 19:10                     ` Bruce Stephens

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