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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 17:30:46 +0000

------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, October 12th, 2022 at 4:23 PM, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com> wrote:


> uzibalqa uzibalqa <at> proton.me writes:
> 
> > > Why is emacs not taking care of these EMACS generated X-Resources?
> 
> 
> I don't think Emacs would set these resources. My guess it's specific
> to your setup, or your GNU/Linux distribution or something.
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> 
> It's a general feature on X that we happen to support. It's not a bug.
> 
> > How can one unset those resources?
> 
> 
> If you read `man xrdb', you will find:
> 
> xrdb -remove

Fine, let me agree it is not a bug.  Because emacs supports some general features on X,
and we know that this problem might occur, could emacs also support the clearance of
EMACS X-Resources.  Particularly for those not technically aware, it will solve them a 
whole lot of problems.

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