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Getting a fresh emacs session with no customisation

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From: uzibalqa <uzibalqa <at> proton.me>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 58459 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58459: Getting a fresh emacs session with no customisation
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 12:52:32 +0000

------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 at 9:51 AM, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> wrote:


> tags 58459 notabug
> close 58459
> thanks
> 
> uzibalqa via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
> editors" bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org writes:
> 
> > I am finding it extremely difficult to get a fresh emacs configuration. Even after removing
> > my "~/.emacs" file and even with "emacs -q" which should not load any init file, I get a black
> > background when I do "emacs -q". With customize-themes not showing that any theme is selected.
> > 
> > Even the command
> > 
> > emacs -q --no-site-file --no-splash
> > 
> > gives me a black background.
> > 
> > But "emacs -Q" gives me a white background.
> 
> 
> So you have some X resources that are causing you trouble. See the
> documentation for the -Q flag.
> 
> Try this to see:
> 
> xrdb -query -all|grep -i emacs
> 
> And then unset those resources.
> 
> This is a support question and not a bug, so I'm closing this.

Why is emacs not taking care of these EMACS generated X-Resources?
You may claim it is not a bug, but what would be the usefelness when
user wants a fresh restart but has to go through all this torture
to find out what is going on.  It is definitely not for the novice
to fix this. 

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