Re: emacs not finding Xdefaults

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.12.2007 um 04:54 schrieb rustom:

> Well the problem recurred and I tried this but this did not work.
> What worked was a. xrdb < .Xdefaults followed by reboot (logout not
> enough)


This is pretty useless. And this substitutes all X resource settings  
valid until then to those in the .Xdefaults file. And they're then  
are only valid till the reboot ...

Could these commands help you?

        man xrdb
        man xinit
        man startx

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