In Emacs, under the X Window System, how do I change the default settings for colors, fonts, and geometries?

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In Emacs, under the X Window System, how do I change the default settings for colors, fonts, and geometries?

In the X Window System, you can choose default settings for Emacs in the X resources database (.Xresources). Here are a few examples of lines you can add to your ~/.Xresources files to cause Emacs to start up with alternate colors, fonts, and geometries: Emacs*background: Blue Emacs*font: 7x14 Emacs*foreground: Black Emacs*geometry: 80x30 Emacs*pointerColor: yellow

After making the changes, at the command line enter: xrdb ~/.Xresources

You should also have the following lines in your .xinitrc file to ensure that your resources are read upon starting the X server: if [ -f $HOME/.Xresources ]; then xrdb $HOME/.Xresources; fi

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