Re: [External] : Running emacs without any customisation

[uzibalqa]

------- Original Message -------
On Thursday, October 13th, 2022 at 11:17 AM, Dr Rainer Woitok 
<rainer.woitok@gmail.com> wrote:


> Uzibalqa,
> 
> On Wednesday, 2022-10-12 21:05:33 +0000, wrote:
> 
> > ...
> > 
> > > > I have not personally added them. Nevertheless, how can I remove them
> > > > exactly?
> 
> 
> In an earlier mail within this thread you listed the output from command
> 
> xrdb -query -all | grep -i emacs
> 
> This command listed the Emacs specific entries in the "X server resource
> database". "xrdb" is only listing the sum of configuration specifica-
> tions others, like your administrator, your window manager, other soft-
> ware or you personally (via file "~/.Xresources") are providing.
> 
> So whereever these specifications originate from, you can override them
> in your personal "~/.Xresources" file. Just run
> 
> xrdb -query -all | grep -i emacs > ~/.Xresources
> 
> 
> and then edit this file to your heart's content.

Rainer, this will only just put the EMACS settings in ~/.Xresources
And because I do not want settings this way, but simply get vanilla
emacs when not using options.

Have done as you suggested, made "~/.Xresources" with nothing in it, but
then Emacs still does not fire up Vanilla Emacs.

 
> > > ...
> > > Anyway, in Gnu Emacs the file is by default located at "~/.Xresources" -
> 
> 
> Michael, are you sure Gnu Emacs is actually opening file "~/.Xresour-
> ces"? I'd suspect it just queries the "X server resource database" like
> anybody else. For me the current case is pointing in exactly this di-
> rection.

I agree, it just queries the x-resource database. 
 
> > > ...
> > > I am using Trisquel 9. Correct, I did not edit anything and the 
> > > Xresources file does not exist.
> 
> 
> On some Linux distributions (not sure about Ubuntu and Trisquel) X11 is
> providing system wide default resource specifications. So it's better
> to use one's own as described above.
> 
> Sincerely
> Rainer