My impression about Gnome 2.10 + a couple of Qs

[George Hartzell]

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.