Xdefaults

[me-5yx05kfkO/aqeI1yJSURBw at public.gmane.org (Matthew Gillen)]

Stephen Adler wrote:
> What's the correct method of setting up your environment using the 
> .Xdefaults like file. the reason I ask is that for a long time I've put 
> all my emacs* configuration settings in an .Xdefults file in my home 
> directory, all was good. But now, my .Xdefaults file is being ignored 
> when I log in. What's the new .Xdefaults file where I should put all my 
> X11 configuration settings?

Try ~/.Xresources.  You can poke around in /etc/X11/xinit/ to see some of 
the other dot files that get referenced (that one on my fedora system is in 
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common)

HTH,
Matt