Re: Not a big issue re: Xresources ... but ??

[William Case]

Hi Andrea;
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 15:02 +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> On 6/27/07, William Case <billlinux@rogers.com> wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > I have set my Xresources file as below:
> >
> > /etc/X11/Xresources
> > ...
> > ! start emacs with scroll bar on right side
> > Emacs.Geometry: 80x65+96+32
> > Emacs.verticleScrollBars: right
> >
> > It does the job.  But Emacs always starts with a different position size
> > and with the scrollbar on the left.  That lasts for a fraction of a
> > second, just long enough for me to see that it is some default
> > configuration then flashes to the Xresources setup.  It looks a little
> > hacky; I can live with that.
> 
> Do you set a font in your ~/.emacs? Try to set it in your
> ~/.Xresources file instead (Emacs.font: blah-blah-blah), this should
> fix the frame (window) resizing. For the position, i'll blame your WM.
> 
> About the scrollbar, i've no idea...

I have no fonts set in ~/.emacs.  I am content to use the default as my
start up font.

You may notice that I have set the postion, size and scrollbar
in /etc/X11/Xresources rather than ~/.Xresources.  I wanted the defined
behaviour to be global on my machine.
-- 
Regards Bill