On 2020-01-28, Tom Browder <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 03:09 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 07:57:49PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> > Or it may be as easy as going into the Mate Settings Daemon application >> > (if it has a GUI) and disabling the xrdg plugin.
> I tried to find that and couldn't. Have you tried my suggestion of yesterday, a method which worked for the man in the thread linked at the bottom of this post? You might have to be root, and you must have the dconf-editor installed. Open that gui app, search for the org.mate.SettingsDaemon.plugins.xrdb setting and set it to false. Worth a try. Maybe you already did and I missed it. You might also, as Nate suggested, simply comment out the relevant or irrelevant lines in /etc/xrdb/Emacs.ad. Of course, for any of this to have any effect, I believe, at the very least you need to log out and back in again; verification of eventual effects might be done with yet another 'xrdb -query'. I would point out that the man in the superuser.com thread uses an ~./.Xresources file for certain terminal settings, and the dconf-editor method of deactivating plugins.xrdb succeeded in preventing that file from being superseded. > I would like to be able to experiment with other desktops or window > managers. Can I do that and still return safely to my current setup? If so, > what do you recommend? This is purported to be as simple as installing the desired DE and choosing it rather than Mate during login in your display manager. https://superuser.com/questions/1351751/xresources-not-loaded-under-mate-desktop > Best, > > -Tom > > --00000000000093c427059d31e489 > Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > ><div>On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 03:09 <<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]";>= > [email protected]</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><b= > lockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px = > #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 07:57:49PM -0600, Nate= > Bargmann wrote:<br> > > Or it may be as easy as going into the Mate Settings Daemon applicatio= > n<br> > > (if it has a GUI) and disabling the xrdg plugin.</blockquote><div dir= >=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">I tried to find that and couldn't= > .</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">I would like to be abl= > e to experiment with other desktops or window managers. Can I do that and s= > till return safely to my current setup? If so, what do you recommend?</div>= ><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Best,</div><div dir=3D"auto">= ><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">-Tom</div></div></div> > > --00000000000093c427059d31e489-- > > -- "J'ai pour me guérir du jugement des autres toute la distance qui me sépare de moi." Antonin Artaud
