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Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Aug 2013 23:15:08 +0200 |
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Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:
> Shared logins? Makes no sense to me. Where is the security in
> that.
No, probably some ancient way of sharing, when a small group of
people were on a techno-science facility with a huge mainframe,
which they used to estimate the trajectories of Russian nukes...
> Anyway, since you brought up dealing with different monitor
> sizes here's how I deal with rxvt on different terminal sizes
> using xrdb and X-resources:
>
> #if ( HEIGHT == 900 ) /* Traditional Sparc */
> Rxvt.geometry: 80x55
> #elif ( HEIGHT == 1024 ) /* Sparc 21 inch */
> Rxvt.geometry: 80x65
> #elif ( HEIGHT == 768 ) /* Exceed in 1024x768 mode */
> Rxvt.geometry: 80x47
> #else /* I have no idea... */
> Rxvt.geometry: 80x40
> #endif
Cool - I didn't know you could branch in .Xresources. What syntax
is that - the C preprocessor?
> The man page reveals other values you can access besides HEIGHT.
What man page?
> Another person mentioned running xrdb and reading an .Xdefaults
> file. A common problem with .Xdefaults is that it can rapidly
> accumulate huge amounts of junk.
>
> Here's how I deal with that in my .xinitrc:
>
> cat $HOME/xdef/*.ad | xrdb -load
Doesn't that mean you don't use .Xdefaults?
> The xdef directory contains:
>
> Emacs.ad
> exmh.ad
> xterm.ad
> etc.
>
> Makes it easy to remove things you no longer use.
You mean, you remove it, by not adding it every time X starts?
What extension is .ad?
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Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS, Dan Espen, 2013/08/06
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Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS, Dan Espen, 2013/08/08
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Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS, Emanuel Berg, 2013/08/02