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Re: Problem with customizing the way emacs looks
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Maarten Bergvelt |
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Re: Problem with customizing the way emacs looks |
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Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:44:27 +0000 (UTC) |
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On 2007-09-14, Chris McMahan <first_initiallastname@one.dot.net> wrote:
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> Could it be that a site startup file or your own .emacs is overriding
> the .Xresources setting?
In other words try starting your emacs as
emacs -q (to suppress your init-file)
emacs --no-sitefile (to suppress the system wide init file)
See the emacs manual Appendix C on command line arguments.
Good luck!
> dxs <shkatov@gmail.com> writes:
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>> Hi,
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>> I'm running emacs 21.4.1 on ubuntu.
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>> 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:
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>> 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.
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>> Why this strange behaviour and how to fix it?
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>> Thanks a million,
>> Dmitry.
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Maarten Bergvelt