Subject: bug#8995: 24.0.50; emacs overhide font settings in .Xressources

From: Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:42:25 +0200

Thierry Volpiatto <[email-masked]> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>>> As i said it doesn't happen always, and it started on saturday afternoon.
>>> 1 time today. 
>>
>> FWIW ~/.Xressources is never consulted by Emacs.  So presumably your
>> ~/.Xressources is read by your login script and passed to `xrdb' to load
>> those settings into your X server (which Emacs does consult to find
>> such settings).
> But that is not new isn't it?
> This appear only on saturday, never before.
>
> Of course i use xrdb -load ~/.Xressources in my .profile:
> [ -n $DISPLAY ] && xrdb -load ~/.Xressources
>
>> So check `xrdb -query' to see whether those settings are still present.
> All emacs settings are presents.

Forget to mention that when this happened, the inferior part of last
line of *Messages* buffer was present in minibuffer.
I will try to take screenshot if it happen again.

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