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Emacs 24.4 doesn't respect X resources

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Rogério Brito <rbrito <at> ime.usp.br>, 18902 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18902: Emacs 24.4 doesn't respect X resources
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:11:30 -0400

> Debian has just upgraded Emacs 24.3 to 24.4 and one thing stopped
> working: It seems that Emacs 24.4 does not respect all the X resources
> that I used to specify (for many, many, many years) in my .Xresources
> file.
> 
> Going back to 24.3 makes the configuration work again. Going forward to
> 24.4 makes it stop. Tested multiple times just in case I was going nuts.
> 
> In particular, I set the geometry, foreground and background colors with
> the following:
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> Emacs*cursorColor:		red
> Emacs*geometry:			100x45
> Emacs*Background:		#002540
> Emacs*Foreground:		azure3

Can you reproduce the problem with "emacs -q" (with lower-case "q",
since "-Q" ignores Xresources)?

Is the above from your .Xresources or from the output of "xrdb -query"
(I ask since Emacs himself doesn't read the .Xresources file)?


        Stefan

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