Re: Persistent white background

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Jan 18 2005, Peter Dyballa wrote:

> Am 17.01.2005 um 10:23 schrieb Reiner Steib:
>
>> C'mon, Emacs is free software so there is no need for such "reverse
>> engineering" techniques.  The X Resources are documented in the
>> manual: (info "(emacs)Resources X").
>
> Yes, that's the usual place. There is nothing mentioned about GTK. 

Note the last line in the menu:

,----[ (info "(emacs)X Resources") ]
| * Resources::           Using X resources with Emacs (in general).
| * Table of Resources::  Table of specific X resources that affect Emacs.
| * Face Resources::      X resources for customizing faces.
| * Lucid Resources::     X resources for Lucid menus.
| * LessTif Resources::   X resources for LessTif and Motif menus.
| * GTK resources::       Resources for GTK widgets.
`----

> Since it makes a difference whether you're using Motif or
> Athena/Lucid as X tool kit I'd presume GTK too brings some extras
> that are not yet documented. Or is GTK's introduction into GNU Emacs
> so restricted that there are no new X resources?

,----[ (info "(emacs)GTK resources") ]
| If the Emacs installed at your site was built to use the GTK widget set,
| then the menu bar, scroll bar and the dialogs can be customized with
| the standard GTK `~/.gtkrc-2.0' file or with the Emacs specific
| `~/.emacs.d/gtkrc' file; note that these files are only for customizing
| specific GTK widget features.  To customize Emacs font, background,
| faces etc., use the normal X resources, see *Note Resources::.
`----

Bye, Reiner.

PS: No need to Cc me, see "Mail-Copies-To: nobody".
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