Re: Emacs-21.3 is ignoring my X-resources colors setting

[Harry Putnam]

> Hi, 
>
> Sorry about the cross-posting, I've been trying to find a solution for
> this for at least 3 weeks now. Many attempts have ended in vain. 
>
> Please somebody help, please.
>
> I've been using the following to set up my Emacs colors (dig up from
> google) up till emacs-21.2-33, but they no longer work under
> emacs-21.3+1-5. 
>
> - - - - >8 - - - -
> Emacs.default.attributeBackground:      gray25
> Emacs.default.attributeForeground:      gray85
> Emacs*XlwMenu.background:       gray35
> Emacs*XlwMenu.topShadowColor:   gray60
> Emacs*XlwMenu.bottomShadowColor:        gray10
> Emacs*XlwMenu.foreground:       gray80
> - - - - >8 - - - -

You may be able to put settings like the following in ~/.Xresources
(Note: bangs (!) are considered comment chars in ~/.Xresources

You didn't mention what operating system you use but there was a time
when settings like these went in ~/.Xdefaults but in recent fedora
(redhat) desktops, this file name was changed to ~/.Xresources

These all take effect when I startx using recent Fedora core 2 and kde
desktop.  But I think it works for gnome too.

  emacs*Background: black
  emacs*Foreground: papayawhip
  #emacs.title: 
  emacs*pointerColor: white
  emacs*cursorColor: magenta
  emacs*bitmapIcon: on
  !emacs*font: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-*-140-75-*-*-*-iso8859-1
  !emacs*font: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-*-140-75-*-*-*-*-*
  !emacs*font: -misc-fixed-bold-*-*-*-*-130-100-*-c-*-iso8859-1
  ! emacs*font: -misc-*-bold-r-normal--15-140-75-75-*-90-iso8859-*
  ##emacs*font: 
  emacs*font:  -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1
  !emacs*font: -Adobe-Courier-Bold-R-Normal--14-100-100-100-M-90-ISO8859-1
  !emacs*font: -misc-fixed-medium-*-*-*-*-140-100-*-*-*-*-*
  emacs.geometry: 100x38
  ## More font mania
  
  !emacs*menubar.font: 
-Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--18-100-75-75-P-56-ISO8859-1
  !emacs*XlwMenu.font: 
-Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--18-100-75-75-P-56-ISO8859-1