GNU bug report logs - #38495
Emacs ignores ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-hostname

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andrea Cardaci <cyrus.and <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2019 22:32:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 38495 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andrea Cardaci <cyrus.and <at> gmail.com>
To: Colin Baxter <m43cap <at> yandex.com>
Cc: 38495 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38495: Emacs ignores ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-hostname
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 12:39:34 +0100

On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 08:51, Colin Baxter <m43cap <at> yandex.com> wrote:
> Today's pull from master reads my ~/.Xdefaults satisfactorily.

Hi Colin,

The only way here is to put my file in ~/.Xdefaults/hostname.
According to strace, the .Xdefault file (no -hostname suffix) is never
read. Could you try with strace too?

I suspect that you have loaded that file with xrdb -load so Emacs uses
the database and not the actual file.
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