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Could it be that a site startup file or your own .emacs is overriding
the .Xresources setting?

- Chris

dxs <shkatov@gmail.com> 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. 


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