From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 21 18:30:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A56916A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:30:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (w094.z064001164.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.164.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3CD043D31 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:30:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hartzell@kestrel.alerce.com) Received: from merlin.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43C0221BC; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:30:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from satchel.alerce.com (w092.z064001164.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net [64.1.164.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) Authority" (verified OK)) by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033DF214D; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:30:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from satchel.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by satchel.alerce.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2LIUqO4015012 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:30:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell@satchel.alerce.com) Received: (from hartzell@localhost) by satchel.alerce.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j2LIUoLX015008; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:30:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hartzell) From: George Hartzell MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16959.4826.442877.176590@satchel.alerce.com> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:30:50 -0800 To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <1111362743.99522.29.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20050320113052.2c86528a.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> <1111362743.99522.29.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 15) "Security Through Obscurity" XEmacs Lucid X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My impression about Gnome 2.10 + a couple of Qs X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: hartzell@alerce.com List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:30:52 -0000 Joe Marcus Clarke writes: > On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 11:30 +0100, Miguel Mendez wrote: > > [...] > > Now, there's a little problem. I use xemacs as my coding editor, and > > never had a problem before. > [...] > See > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-gnome/2003-October/003503.html. > Basically, gnome-settings-daemon merges X resource settings at > startup. Some problems with this as well as a possible workaround are > discussed in this thread. I'm not sure what came of George's quest > with the GNOME people over this. Wow. I read that and thought "Cool, there's another George playing w/ Gnome and FreeBSD. I'd completely forgotten that entire adventure. I'm not sure exactly how I resolved it at the time. These days I have a minimal .Xresources files that's -merged by xrdb from my .xinitrc. The only things in it are: xterm*ScrollBar: on xterm*SaveLines: 10000 XTerm*VT100*geometry: 80x35 XTerm*background: lightyellow2 ! xterm*VisualBell: true ! xterm.eightBitOutput: true I do all of my Xemacs configuration via the Options button in the toolbar, and or by hand hacking the resulting .xemacs/custom.el file. It seems to happen late enough in the process that things work out. Things seem to work, the only problem I experience regularly is that sawfish/gnome positition the xemacs window, *then* it sets my chosen font. Since my personal font is bigger, the window grows and it's right edge and/or bottom often extend off the screen. I just mouse up and move it around to suit. g.