From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Maarten Bergvelt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with customizing the way emacs looks Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:44:27 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Department of Mathematics, UIUC. Message-ID: References: Reply-To: bergv@uiuc.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189798852 31309 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2007 19:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:40:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 14 21:40:46 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 1IWH1k-0004PE-Lo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IWH1j-0006R8-Uw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ks.uiuc.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: u19.math.uiuc.edu Original-X-Trace: news.ks.uiuc.edu 1189795467 31263 130.126.108.49 (14 Sep 2007 18:44:27 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news+abuse@ks.uiuc.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:44:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152092 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:47603 Archived-At: On 2007-09-14, Chris McMahan wrote: > > Could it be that a site startup file or your own .emacs is overriding > the .Xresources setting? In other words try starting your emacs as emacs -q (to suppress your init-file) emacs --no-sitefile (to suppress the system wide init file) See the emacs manual Appendix C on command line arguments. Good luck! > dxs writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm running emacs 21.4.1 on ubuntu. >> >> Previously, I was using Fedora. I made quite a few customizations of how >> emacs looks through .Xresources and .Xdefaults files. Now, I just copied my >> "old" .Xresources and .Xdefaults into my home directory on ubuntu and a very >> strange thing happens: >> >> when I start emacs up, for a splitting second it looks as prescribed in >> .Xresources and .Xdefaults, but then it immediately changes to look as it >> did before I changed .Xresources and .Xdefaults. >> >> Why this strange behaviour and how to fix it? >> >> Thanks a million, >> Dmitry. > > -- Maarten Bergvelt