Re: Emacs and loss of highlighting: problem semi-solved (Buster MATE)
On 2020-01-28, Tom Browder <tom.browder@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 03:09 <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 07:57:49PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
>> > Or it may be as easy as going into the Mate Settings Daemon application
>> > (if it has a GUI) and disabling the xrdg plugin.
> I tried to find that and couldn't.
Have you tried my suggestion of yesterday, a method which worked for the
man in the thread linked at the bottom of this post? You might have to
be root, and you must have the dconf-editor installed. Open that gui
app, search for the
org.mate.SettingsDaemon.plugins.xrdb
setting and set it to false. Worth a try. Maybe you already did and I
missed it. You might also, as Nate suggested, simply comment out the
relevant or irrelevant lines in /etc/xrdb/Emacs.ad.
Of course, for any of this to have any effect, I believe, at the very
least you need to log out and back in again; verification of eventual
effects might be done with yet another 'xrdb -query'.
I would point out that the man in the superuser.com thread uses an
~./.Xresources file for certain terminal settings, and the dconf-editor
method of deactivating plugins.xrdb succeeded in preventing that file
from being superseded.
> I would like to be able to experiment with other desktops or window
> managers. Can I do that and still return safely to my current setup? If so,
> what do you recommend?
This is purported to be as simple as installing the desired DE and
choosing it rather than Mate during login in your display manager.
https://superuser.com/questions/1351751/xresources-not-loaded-under-mate-desktop
> Best,
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> -Tom
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><div>On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 03:09 <<a href=3D"mailto:tomas@tuxteam.de";>=
> tomas@tuxteam.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><b=
> lockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px =
> #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 07:57:49PM -0600, Nate=
> Bargmann wrote:<br>
> > Or it may be as easy as going into the Mate Settings Daemon applicatio=
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> > (if it has a GUI) and disabling the xrdg plugin.</blockquote><div dir=
>=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">I tried to find that and couldn't=
> .</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">I would like to be abl=
> e to experiment with other desktops or window managers. Can I do that and s=
> till return safely to my current setup? If so, what do you recommend?</div>=
><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Best,</div><div dir=3D"auto">=
><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">-Tom</div></div></div>
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