Emacs ignoring my settings in ~/.emacs

[Csanyi Pal]

Hi,

jesterday I upgraded my Debian GNU/Linux SID system and being used
another desktop environment GNOME.

Today I return back to my favorite Window Maker window manager but Emacs
ignore settings in ~/.emacs.

How can I solve this problem?

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Regards, Pal

[Pedro Insua]

You are using SID (unstable brach), maybe it's a bug in some Debian
package.. have you installed/updated new/some packages ?

You can run Emacs with '--debug-init' to see what's go on..

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[Peter Dyballa]

Am 01.01.2012 um 08:54 schrieb Csanyi Pal:

> How can I solve this problem?

Maybe by studying Sid documentation and finding out which system-wide GNU Emacs start-up file is being used now... (or trace its use with some *trace command)

One other option would be to launch GNU Emacs with --no-site-file (or simply -q?).

OTOH you can try to find out to which values custom-file and user-init-file are set. This could show an easy work-around. The variable site-run-file stores the name of the system-wide GNU Emacs start-up file, so you can find and study it as well.

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Greetings

Pete

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[Csanyi Pal]

Pedro Insua <pedro...@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 08:54:55AM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:

>> jesterday I upgraded my Debian GNU/Linux SID system and being used
>> another desktop environment GNOME.
>>
>> Today I return back to my favorite Window Maker window manager but Emacs
>> ignore settings in ~/.emacs.
>>

>> How can I solve this problem?
>

> You are using SID (unstable brach), maybe it's a bug in some Debian
> package.. have you installed/updated new/some packages ?
>
> You can run Emacs with '--debug-init' to see what's go on..

Well, I try to add some bug to my .emacs file (zzz letters in the first
line) and realize that that actually Emacs load ~/.emacs file, but the
Emacs window is so big that I can't see neither it's bottom nor the
right edge.

I must to change Emacs window geometry to get window smaller.

It's interesting that that Emacs window geometry varying when one uses
XDM or GDM display managers with the same setup in the ~/.emacs file.

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Regards from Pal
Happy New Year!

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.01.2012 um 18:53 schrieb Csanyi Pal:

> It's interesting that that Emacs window geometry varying when one uses
> XDM or GDM display managers with the same setup in the ~/.emacs file.

Because different values for the resources are used? You can overcome these by setting values on the command line when launching GNU Emacs.

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Greetings

Pete

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[rusi]

On Jan 2, 10:53 pm, Csanyi Pal <csanyi...@gmail.com> wrote:

You can move a window whose top/bottom/edges are inaccessible with Alt
+drag
[In X windows]

[William F Hammond]

rusi <rusto...@gmail.com> writes:

> . . .

> You can move a window whose top/bottom/edges are inaccessible with Alt
> +drag
> [In X windows]

And depending on the environment for X11, 'Alt' might be 'Super'
(a.k.a Windoz) as, for example, with the version of Gnome under Ubuntu
that I'm using at this moment.

-- Bill

[Jim Diamond]

On 2012-01-02 at 23:16 AST, rusi <rusto...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 2, 10:53 pm, Csanyi Pal <csanyi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Pedro Insua <pedroin...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > On Sun, Jan 01, 2012 at 08:54:55AM +0100, Csanyi Pal wrote:
>> >> jesterday I upgraded my Debian GNU/Linux SID system and being used
>> >> another desktop environment GNOME.
>>
>> >> Today I return back to my favorite Window Maker window manager but Emacs
>> >> ignore settings in ~/.emacs.
>>
>> >> How can I solve this problem?
>>
>> >   You are using SID (unstable brach), maybe it's a bug in some Debian
>> >   package.. have you installed/updated new/some packages ?
>>
>> >   You can run Emacs with '--debug-init' to see what's go on..
>>
>> Well, I try to add some bug to my .emacs file (zzz letters in the first
>> line) and realize that that actually Emacs load ~/.emacs file, but the
>> Emacs window is so big that I can't see neither it's bottom nor the
>> right edge.
>>
>> I must to change Emacs window geometry to get window smaller.
>>
>> It's interesting that that Emacs window geometry varying when one uses
>> XDM or GDM display managers with the same setup in the ~/.emacs file.
>

> You can move a window whose top/bottom/edges are inaccessible with Alt
> +drag
> [In X windows]

That's not true in all cases, it depends on your choice of window
manager and how you have things set up.

Cheers.
Jim