were referring to the name, but if
fvwm somehow changes this (resource wise), you will be in trouble.
You can experiment from a shell. Apparently, emacs looks into
.Xdefaults whenever it starts. Just add -q to avoid reading your
.emacs.
You could also handle this from within your .emacs. You could
You're on target. Here's a sample of my ~/.Xresources copied from the
sample Xdefaults that comes with Xemacs.
Emacs.default.attributeBackground: white
Emacs.default.attributeForeground: black
The default Debian setup wants it named .Xresources (as opposed to
.Xdefaults).
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Christian Lynbech on satellite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am no expert on X11 ressources, but here is a few ideas. Beware that
this is based on a mental image I have built for myself which may have
anywhere between 0 and 100 % resemblance to reality.
First note that X11 distinguishes
On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote:
It only specifies 'usually' here, but it's still a bit confusing.
Should I file a (wishlist) bug report, do you think?
personally I think the .Xdefaults name is dumb, after all what does
it contain? X resources! they are not defaults at all, defaults are
what
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:) On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote:
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:) to my ~/.xsession. However this only has an effect if I start
Chanop Silpa-Anan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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:) to my
I've decided that I like my emacs to have nice green letters on dark
background. To this end, I looked in the emacs manual and created a
file ~/.Xdefaults with the following incantations:
emacs.background: Black
emacs.foreground: LimeGreen
However this seems to have no effect. I got a tip
On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote:
to my ~/.xsession. However this only has an effect if I start emacs
from the xterm started in my .xsession; if I launch emacs from the
fvwm2 menus it does not work.
What should I do?
mv ~/.Xdefaults ~/.Xresources
coming from Redhat?
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Ethan Benson
To obtain
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote:
to my ~/.xsession. However this only has an effect if I start emacs
from the xterm started in my .xsession; if I launch emacs from the
fvwm2 menus it does not work.
What should I do?
mv ~/.Xdefaults ~/.Xresources
Big Gaute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 22/1/2000 Big Gaute wrote:
to my ~/.xsession. However this only has an effect if I start emacs
from the xterm started in my .xsession; if I launch emacs from the
fvwm2 menus it does not work.
What
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 02:28:06PM +, Big Gaute wrote:
I've decided that I like my emacs to have nice green letters on dark
background. To this end, I looked in the emacs manual and created a
file ~/.Xdefaults with the following incantations:
emacs.background: Black
emacs.foreground:
Kirk Hilliard wrote:
Last week I issued a plea for help:
I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to
read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex.
And Wintermute [EMAIL PROTECTED] came to the rescue:
Try this..
xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
That does the
Kirk == Kirk Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kirk I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to
Kirk read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex.
Shouldn't it be called ~/.Xresources ?
Personally I have the two filenames symbolic linked together, because
some X
Wintermute wrote:
Kirk Hilliard wrote:
Last week I issued a plea for help:
I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to
read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex.
And Wintermute [EMAIL PROTECTED] came to the rescue:
Try this..
xrdb -merge
Last week I issued a plea for help:
I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to
read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex.
And Wintermute [EMAIL PROTECTED] came to the rescue:
Try this..
xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
That does the job!
Since it only works for the
I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to
read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex.
~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults
emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1
~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults-globe
emacs.font:
Kirk Hilliard wrote:
I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to
read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex.
~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults
emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1
~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults-globe
emacs.font:
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