* On 2020 27 Jan 10:11 -0600, Curt wrote: > I missed that point, yet I'm still left to wonder whether the mate > settings daemon xrdb plugins referenced above (if it is indeed running > on the OP's machine as part of the Mate kitchen sink) might be > responsible for the rather copious Emacs 'xdrb -query' output he offered > up for inspection. > > Looking at this > > https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-settings-daemon/blob/master/plugins/xrdb/data/Emacs.ad > > there does appear to be similarities. Maybe I'm not understanding the > whole thing correctly. Good sleuth work, Curt. It looks to me like this is part of a theme plugin for Mate. Beyond playing with it for a short time as to satisfy a bit of curiosity, I've not used Mate any length of time. Still, I find it interesting that a Gtk based desktop is tweaking Xresources as that was one of things that was seemingly declared "obsolete" about 20+ years ago as the new "Linux desktops" began to develop. Anyway, @ the OP, Tom. I'd go through the Appearance/theme menus of Mate and at least remove or disable this Emacs plugin if it can be found through the GUI. The other thought I had was to create a new user and see if the problem followed along. In this case it probably would. Another option would be to install Xfce and try it, but these thoughts were before I saw Curt's message. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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