Re: changing GNU Emacs fonts in KDE 2
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 23:08:51 -0500, Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> wrote:
> Faheem Mitha <faheem@email.unc.edu> writes:
>
>> Oops, I logged out and back in, and then it started working. I'm not
>> sure why, though. So it looks like unchecking the checkbox did the
>> trick. Does anyone have any other comments about this?
>
> KDE's "Apply fonts and colors to non-KDE applications" acts by
> setting X resources in your current session. When you unclick the
> button, it probably doesn't unset any of those resources (because it
> wouldn't know what to set them back to). So you have to load in your
> resources again, or log out and back in.
Thanks to you and Rob Weir for the clarification. I wish KDE didn't
have this behaviour by default though. From experience I can tell you
I'm not the only person who was puzzled by this. Shouldn't a sensible
default be "don't mess with X resources"?
Faheem.
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