Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)
On Mon 27 Jan 2020 at 14:34:14 (-0000), Curt wrote:
> On 2020-01-27, Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> wrote:
> >
> > At this point, I think you need to find any file on your system that has
> > the Emacs X resources that xrdb showed and comment them out.
> >
>
> As perhaps an unhelpful and not necessarily related data point, there
> exists a bug report concerning Xresources and Emacs 24.4, the insect
> consisting of the former remaining unread or "unrespected" (which may
> not be a word) in the Mate desktop environment when using the latter.
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770781
>
> https://superuser.com/questions/1351751/xresources-not-loaded-under-mate-desktop
>
> (Set the active attribute to false under
> 'org.mate.SettingsDaemon.plugins.xrdb' with dconf-editor?)
It's not clear to me whether "my Xresources" means the dotfile in
$HOME, or something else. In the case of the former, the OP wrote
that they had no ~/.Xresources, so not reading it wouldn't matter.
Cheers,
David.
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