Re: emacs and .Xdefaults

[Wintermute <wntrmute@tampabay.rr.com>]

Kirk Hilliard wrote:
> 
> I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to
> read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex.
> 
>   ~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults
>   emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1
>   ~ $ cat ~/.Xdefaults-globe
>   emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1
>   ~ $ hostname
>   globe
>   ~ $ emacs
>   ~ $ echo "That one came up with the big ugly default font."
>   That one came up with the big ugly default font.
>   ~ $ emacs -fn "-misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1"
>   ~ $ echo "That one came up with the nice small font that I want."
>   That one came up with the nice small font that I want.
>   ~ $
> 
> How can I get this to work again?
> 
> Kirk "alias emacs='emacs -fn fixed'" Hilliard
> 
>

Try this..

xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
d


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