On Thu, 14 Nov 2002 01:45:09 +0000 (UTC), Faheem Mitha
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear People,
>
> Judging from old posts on Google, the correct way is to change fonts
> on an application is to put your preference in the .Xresources file,
> ie. something like
>
> Emacs.font: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
>
> However, for me this is ignored by emacs when it starts ups, though it
> works fine if I do
>
> emacs --font -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
>
> I have a feeling this may have something to do with KDE2, which is
> what I use. Is it possible KDE2 is overriding my X resources, and if
> so is there a way to turn it off? There appears to be a file
> /usr/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults/Emacs.ad which looks like it has
> something to do with X resources. Does anyone recommend fiddling with
> this? Or any other suggestions? I'd like a non-window-manager specific
> solution.
>
> Note I found (and unchecked) the checkbox in the KDE Control Center
> which is under Look and Feel/Style and says "Apply fonts and colors to
> non-KDE applications", but this doesn't seem to make any difference.
>
> I'm currently tracking Sarge, and there is nothing else that seems
> worthy of note about my setup.
Oops, I logged out and back in, and then it started working. I'm not
sure why, though. So it looks like unchecking the checkbox did the
trick. Does anyone have any other comments about this?
Faheem.
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