On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 07:54:47PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2020 27 Jan 16:12 -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > > > Gang, I've tried various combinations of: > > > > 1. removing/installing the /etc/xrdb/*.ad files > > I see that the mate-settings-daemon package has the /etc/xrdb/Emacs.ad > file. Yep, that was my impression too: that some desktop environment is messing up the X resources (not the files, the database in the server) in some creative way. > As that package apparently is required for the Mate desktop, it's > likely that to resolve this that you'll need to comment the lines in > that file as root and note that package upgrades may overwrite your > commented file with the one supplied with the package. This would be a Debian policy violation. /etc is taboo, sysadmin overrides (you get asked at upgrade, though, so some vigilance is in order). Ah-hah. Some search-engining later: see this https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/issue-with-xresources-and-ubuntu-mate/3756 This guy is having the same problem (the solution is inconclusive, though -- he disabled some "mate X resources plugin" without any success). Things like this, BTW, are what at last, drove me away from desktop environments: they are fiendishly complex, full of quick fire-and forget contribs "oh, this seems a good idea", and when you have a serious question... crickets. Note that I'm not blaming anyone. I'm of the impression that there aren't enough resources to manage that complexity (and I don't mean technical, but more the social, i.e. the width of the user base). Hapy fvwm camper since. Cheers -- tomás
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