11:10 p.m.
Dear list members,
I have a .Xdefauts to change Xemacs color as following:
Emacs.default.attributeBackground: White
But after I apply xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults,
The Mozilla menu bar font is changed to a small size. I am wondering how
to keep me Xemacs color and not change Mozzilla menu bar font.
Thanks,
Zhu Wang
SMU
11:40 p.m.
zhu wang wrote:
I have a .Xdefauts to change Xemacs color as following:
Emacs.default.attributeBackground: White
But after I apply xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults,
The Mozilla menu bar font is changed to a small size. I am wondering how
to keep me Xemacs color and not change Mozzilla menu bar font.
Before you run "xrdb -load ...", try running "xrdb -query". If it
produces any output, then don't use "xrdb -load ..." , but use
"xrdb -merge ..." instead.
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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements(a)virgin.net>
3:23 p.m.
Thanks to Glynn Clements and Giacomo Boffi.
Yes, what I need is
xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
Another problem is why I need to apply "xrdb ..." every time when I
restart the Linux system? Do I miss something?
Thanks,
Zhu Wang
SMU
On Wed, 2003-05-28 at 17:40, Glynn Clements wrote:
zhu wang wrote:
> I have a .Xdefauts to change Xemacs color as following:
>
> Emacs.default.attributeBackground: White
>
> But after I apply xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults,
>
> The Mozilla menu bar font is changed to a small size. I am wondering how
> to keep me Xemacs color and not change Mozzilla menu bar font.
Before you run "xrdb -load ...", try running "xrdb -query". If it
produces any output, then don't use "xrdb -load ..." , but use
"xrdb -merge ..." instead.
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zhu wang <zhuw(a)mail.smu.edu>
3:34 p.m.
zhu wang <zhuw(a)mail.smu.edu> writes:
Another problem is why I need to apply "xrdb ..." every
time when I
restart the Linux system? Do I miss something?
I have the following stanza in my .xinitrc which is called through
startx every time I start a new X session:
,----
| userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
|
| if [ -f $userresources ]; then
| xrdb -merge $userresources
| fi
`----
Note, that you should put something similar into .xsession, if you
were using xdm.
HTH,
norbert.
5:21 p.m.
>>>> "zhu" == zhu wang <zhuw(a)mail.smu.edu>
writes:
zhu> Another problem is why I need to apply "xrdb ..." every time
zhu> when I restart the Linux system? Do I miss something?
The modern name for that ~/.Xdefaults is ~/.Xresources.
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6:34 p.m.
zhu> Another problem is why I need to apply "xrdb ..." every time
zhu> when I restart the Linux system? Do I miss something?
The modern name for that ~/.Xdefaults is ~/.Xresources.
Huh? It has nothing to do with modernity AFAIK.
They're just two different files with different semantics (.Xdefaults
is read by X clients, whereas .Xresources is passed to the X server
via xrdb).
Stefan
7:29 a.m.
>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier
<monnier+gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta/news/(a)rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:
zhu> Another problem is why I need to apply "xrdb ..." every time
zhu> when I restart the Linux system? Do I miss something?
> The modern name for that ~/.Xdefaults is ~/.Xresources.
Stefan> Huh? It has nothing to do with modernity AFAIK. They're
Stefan> just two different files with different semantics
Stefan> (.Xdefaults is read by X clients, whereas .Xresources is
Stefan> passed to the X server via xrdb).
Different semantics, yes, but I've been asked on three separate
occasions by three separate X maintainers from two different
organizations to eliminate references to .Xdefaults from XEmacs
documentation.
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University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN
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ask what your business can "do for" free software.
1:38 a.m.
zhu wang wrote:
Thanks to Glynn Clements and Giacomo Boffi.
Yes, what I need is
xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
Another problem is why I need to apply "xrdb ..." every time when I
restart the Linux system? Do I miss something?
The "X resources db" is generated by merging multiple sources. One of
these sources is *either* the data which is stored in the X server by
xrdb *or* the contents of ~/.Xdefaults.
The ~/.Xdefaults file is only used if no data has been stored by xrdb.
It's common for startx, xdm etc to be configured so that if the file
~/.Xresources exists, it is passed to xrdb. In this case, ~/.Xdefaults
won't be used.
For more information on X resources, see Q20 in the
comp.windows.x.intrinics FAQ:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/Xt-FAQ/section-21.html
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Glynn Clements <glynn.clements(a)virgin.net>
2:20 a.m.
Thanks to Stephen J. Turnbull and Glynn Clements.
The problem was solved by creating .Xresources and applying
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
Zhu Wang
Southern Methodist University
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 19:38, Glynn Clements wrote:
zhu wang wrote:
> Thanks to Glynn Clements and Giacomo Boffi.
> Yes, what I need is
> xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
>
> Another problem is why I need to apply "xrdb ..." every time when I
> restart the Linux system? Do I miss something?
The "X resources db" is generated by merging multiple sources. One of
these sources is *either* the data which is stored in the X server by
xrdb *or* the contents of ~/.Xdefaults.
The ~/.Xdefaults file is only used if no data has been stored by xrdb.
It's common for startx, xdm etc to be configured so that if the file
~/.Xresources exists, it is passed to xrdb. In this case, ~/.Xdefaults
won't be used.
For more information on X resources, see Q20 in the
comp.windows.x.intrinics FAQ:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/Xt-FAQ/section-21.html
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zhu wang <zhuw(a)mail.smu.edu>
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