From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs-21.3 is ignoring my X-resources colors setting Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 04:57:34 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <86k6xdjxzo.fsf@rumba.de.uu.net> <878ydoqrgi.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089712695 18867 80.91.224.253 (13 Jul 2004 09:58:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 13 11:58:10 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BkK37-0007Yk-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:58:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BkK5U-0005Kb-1g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 06:00:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BkK5D-0005K9-0o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 06:00:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BkK5A-0005JY-Hb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 06:00:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BkK59-0005JV-Es for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 06:00:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BkK2c-0001BA-L9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 05:57:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BkK2b-00005P-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:57:37 +0200 Original-Received: from adsl-68-74-176-57.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.74.176.57]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:57:37 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by adsl-68-74-176-57.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:57:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-74-176-57.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:P/x+PujfuSA/SUSFjkKFovbCxL4= 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19614 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19614 Tim X writes: > I just noticed that kdisplay dir - are you running kde? While I've > never used it, I have seen posts which indicate kde will over-ride > Xresource/Xdefault settings unless a tick box is set in its > configuration file. Without the tick, colours are over-riden by the > KDE desktop settings. I'm sort of a new kde user but I haven't found the above to be true. I haven't checked anything special but my colors listed in .Xresources are the ones I see when starting such things as emacs and xterm.