Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?

[David De La Harpe Golden]

Miles Bader wrote:
> One thing which annoys me is that Emacs seems to ignore .Xdefaults if
> there's anything in the server's xrdb database -- and recent versions of
> gnome, put crap in the xrdb database without being asked to.

?  It was my understanding (which could be flawed) that applications 
never look at .Xdefaults, it's up to you to do an

xrdb -merge .Xdefaults

That happens once at login time automatically*, and if gnome or kde 
overwrite stuff post that time (as you say gnome does and kde can be 
optionally configured to, to partially apply your kde theme to non-kde 
applications, something that never works right of course, but in the kde 
case you can at least turn it off...), then it's up to you to re-merge ?


* Usually by a script in e.g. (debian):
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources