Hi folks,

I am trying to set up fonts in Emacs. I found some articles which ask me to change the X configuration file : ~/.xsession.

This file does not exists in my home directory. Instead, a file called .xsession-error presents. This file contains error message:

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/X11R6/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "ray"
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
SESSION_MANAGER=local/mars:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4323
Window manager warning: "" found in configuration database is not a valid value for keybinding "toggle_shaded"
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Setting timeout for 30834 1173484800 1173453966
evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Sat Mar 10 00:00:00 2007

evolution-alarm-notify-Message: Fri Mar 9 15:26:06 2007

(gnome-panel:4394): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -5 and height 24
DOUBLE-CLICK: 400 --> -1 THRESHOLD: 5 --> -1 ** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)

** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)
** Message: plugin_get_value 1 (1)
** Message: plugin_get_value 2 (2)

I don't know why. It seems that my X window is not set up properly?

Can anyone tell me what happens and how to solve this.

Thanks,

Ray

X startup scripts can be setup a million and one different ways
here on debian
~/.xsession is called by the global file /etc/X11/Xsession which is called by /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc which can also be ~/.xinitrc
while both spellings work .Xsession is better
might not be there by default just like ~/.xserverrc and many others you don't need it till you want to override something.

Xsession is a file used by the display manager and/or xinit and not a good place to put emacs things
but if you want it in your home directory you just copy /etc/X11/Xsession as ~/.Xsession and go from there.

the file you want to put emacs and other apps configurations in is ~/.Xresources
http://xwinman.org/resource.php

the reason its important to use .Xresources rather than other files is Xresources is called by the executable binary xinit itself and read into a database using the binary xrdb.
so ~/.Xsession is not a bash script like all the other x startup files but rather more like a resource file used by an executable.

when you are experimenting with settings read them in with the command
xrdb ~/.Xsession