Re: X Resources for emacs

[Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb@debian.org>]

Hi Bob,

Thanks for reporting your issue.  The discussion ideally takes place on the
debian-user list.  Cc-ed.

Thanks, Bye,

Joost

On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 01:33:44PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> I very glad to have debiandoc-sgml (which I have loved for 
> years) playing quite nicely with psgml in emacs 24.5.1. 
> This is in a recent upgrade to stretch:
> 
> Linux 4.9.0-9-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 
> 4.9.168-1+deb9u3 (2019-06-16) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> I have no troule enlarging the text (or "page") font used 
> by emacs -- using my .emacs file -- but the menu titles 
> and drop-downs require me to use a magnifying glass due to 
> my poor (and a bit old) vision.
> 
> I believe the size of these screen artefacts (menu titles 
> etc.) could be tweaked using X Resources. This instance of 
> emacs is linked to GTK. I have not yet been able to find 
> the names of the needed resources for my problem.
> 
> Thank you
> 
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