On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 1:00 PM Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> wrote: > * 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
Gang, I've tried various combinations of: 1. removing/installing the /etc/xrdb/*.ad files 2. running with an empty .Xresources file 3. running xrdb /dev/null It seems like this is the only thing that I can do to get highlighting reliably so far is: when highlighting disappears, run "xrdb /dev/null" and restart emacs Ugh, suggestions welcome, but I'm about to give up. Thanks for all the suggestions. If anyone does have an .Xresources file that seems to give a satisfactory emacs GTK under Buster I would love to get a copy to try it. Thanks, -Tom > > 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 >
