Re: bad UI defaults

[Richard Stallman]

    > I never really liked fiddling with those X resources, so what about a
    > Custom-like interface to modifying the X resouces that emacs uses?
    >
    > Is there a way to have a running emacs re-read the X resources?

    You only have to put the new resources to the resource DB, see
    functions used in xrdb.c.

That is a way to install the settings for the current session, but
Custom also needs to be able to save them for future sessions.
That would require writing the .Xresources file, or some such thing.