Re: Xwindows and Emacs

2006-08-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-07-02 16:27:49, schrieb Paul E Condon: Long ago, I was a RedHat user. When I moved to Debian, I kept a copy of a file, .Xresources, that made Emacs display under X in a way that I liked. Now in trying to use Etch, I discover that the file doesn't work quite the way I want under

Re: Xwindows and Emacs

2006-07-04 Thread s. keeling
Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Long ago, I was a RedHat user. When I moved to Debian, I kept a copy of a file, .Xresources, that made Emacs display under X in a way that I liked. Now in trying to use Etch, I discover that the file doesn't work quite the way I want under xserver-xorg. I

Re: Xwindows and Emacs

2006-07-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 01:47:04PM +, s. keeling wrote: Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Long ago, I was a RedHat user. When I moved to Debian, I kept a copy of a file, .Xresources, that made Emacs display under X in a way that I liked. Now in trying to use Etch, I discover that the

Re: Xwindows and Emacs, fix typo

2006-07-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 12:18:35PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 01:47:04PM +, s. keeling wrote: Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Long ago, I was a RedHat user. When I moved to Debian, I kept a copy of a file, .Xresources, that made Emacs display under X in a

Re: Xwindows and Emacs

2006-07-04 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:18:35PM EDT, Paul E Condon wrote: [..] But there is something incomplete about your explanation: when I don't but the magic line into my resources, I still get a monospace font in emacs windows, but it is a different one. So there appear to be two defaults, the fixed

Re: Xwindows and Emacs

2006-07-04 Thread s. keeling
Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 01:47:04PM +, s. keeling wrote: Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: emacs*font: fixed See if you have an app called xfontsel. It's a GUI point and click interface to fonts. Note the spc column. For terminal fonts, c

Re: Xwindows and Emacs

2006-07-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 04:41:33PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 02:18:35PM EDT, Paul E Condon wrote: [..] But there is something incomplete about your explanation: when I don't but the magic line into my resources, I still get a monospace font in emacs windows, but it is a

Re: Xwindows and Emacs

2006-07-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 01:37:31AM +, s. keeling wrote: Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 01:47:04PM +, s. keeling wrote: Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: emacs*font: fixed See if you have an app called xfontsel. It's a GUI point and click

Re: Xwindows and Emacs

2006-07-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Did you take a look into the emacs info pages or the text file /usr/share/emacs/21.4/etc/DOC-21.4 (depending on your emacs version)? I use a line like emacs*Font: 7x13 in my .Xdefaults file. Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Xwindows and Emacs

2006-07-02 Thread Paul E Condon
Long ago, I was a RedHat user. When I moved to Debian, I kept a copy of a file, .Xresources, that made Emacs display under X in a way that I liked. Now in trying to use Etch, I discover that the file doesn't work quite the way I want under xserver-xorg. I want to tweek it, but can't find docs

Re: Xwindows and Emacs

2006-07-02 Thread marciotex
Hi Paul $ man xrdb can help you. $ xrdb -query $ xrdb -load file_contains_resources are good starts. Regards, Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Long ago, I was a RedHat user. When I moved to Debian, I kept a copy of a file, .Xresources, that made Emacs display under X in a way that