Problem with emacs over vnc or freenx

[Christofer C. Bell]

On 6/5/06, Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That problem solved. FreeNX still doesn't work well with emacs (need
> to start with "-fn 9x15"), but at least it starts. Sorry for the
> premature resort to the list.

You may be able to define that font in your .Xresources file so that
you don't need to use it on the command line (and emacs will still
function normally in a tty):

$ echo "Emacs*Font: 9x15" >> ~/.Xresources
$ xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

You won't need to run those commands again (or run the second command
at all if you log out and back in).  Here are some links to more
information on how to customize emacs via X resources:

http://snarfed.org/space/emacs+X+resources
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/docs/emacs/emacs_495.html

I don't know what's causing your issue, but I hope you find this
information helpful regardless.  Good luck!

-- 
Chris

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