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Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?
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Miles Bader |
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Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days? |
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Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:22:09 +0900 |
David De La Harpe Golden <address@hidden> writes:
> ? 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
No, ~/.Xdefaults is read directly by applications, without using the
server's database (which is what xrdb manipulates).
I like using it because I often used to forget to re-run xrdb after
making a change, and using .Xdefaults allows me to omit that step.
The "rules" (by my observation) are a bit bizarre: If there's
_anything_ in the server's database, even entries for an unrelated
application, then ~/.Xdefaults is completely ignored, and only entries
from the server database are used; otherwise ~/.Xdefaults is used.
[Gnome's interfering entries aren't related to Emacs at all, it just
puts some random crap in there, but that's enough to screw up Emacs
too.]
You'd think it would be more useful to automagically _merge_ the server
database with the contents of ~/.Xdefaults, but that's not what the X
libraries do.
Anyway, thanks for the tip on getting Gnome to stop screwing things up;
I'll try it...
Thanks,
-Miles
--
"Don't just question authority,
Don't forget to question me."
-- Jello Biafra
- What is the proper way to set the default font these days?, Deniz Dogan, 2009/06/06
- Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?, Stefan Monnier, 2009/06/06
- Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?, Miles Bader, 2009/06/06
- Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?, David De La Harpe Golden, 2009/06/07
- Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/06/08
- Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?, Deniz Dogan, 2009/06/08
- Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?, Chong Yidong, 2009/06/08
- Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/06/08
- Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?, Chong Yidong, 2009/06/08
- Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?, Deniz Dogan, 2009/06/08
- Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?, Deniz Dogan, 2009/06/10
- Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?, Miles Bader, 2009/06/10
- Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?, Deniz Dogan, 2009/06/10
- Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?, Chong Yidong, 2009/06/10