What does xfsettingsd do?

Nikolaus Rath Nikolaus at rath.org
Sat Apr 19 20:35:11 CEST 2014


Marshall Neill <ramien43 at windstream.net> writes:
> On 04/18/2014 09:00 PM, Nikolaus Rath wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> When playing around with some alternative window managers, I noticed
>> that running or not running xfsettingsd has quite some effects on
>> non-XFCE applications as well.
>>
>> For example, the fonts and menu bar in my X11 Emacs look considerably
>> nicer if I have xfsettingsd running.
>>
>> Can someone explain to me how this interaction comes about? I assume
>> that emacs does not come with support for XFCE's xfsettingsd, so how do
>> they communicate with each other?
>
> Try this page  http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=369231

Perfect link, thank you!


Best,
-Nikolaus

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