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How can I set default font in Emacs?

I can't set Inconsolata as default font in Emacs 24.4 Linux. I changed the font in the menu -> Save options. The font changed but after a restart the font is the same as it was by default. Added this to ~/.Xresources: Emacs.font: Inconsolata…
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Magit, how to use system's ssh agent and don't ask for password

I've googled and read the FAQ and Wiki for Magit, but still unable to figure this out, all I find are answers about Windows... How can I configure Magit to use my running ssh-agent session and don't ask for my password when doing a push. I'm running…
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Prebuilt Ubuntu Emacs "25.1"

Where can I find pre-built Emacs for what Ubuntu calls emacs 25.1?
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How to set emacs as the default file manager?

Some programs like firefox have buttons that when clicked open a file manager for browsing files. How do I make it to open in emacs with dired mode on Debian Linux?
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On Linux why should one choose Lucid over Gtk gui for emacs?

I run Ubuntu 16.04. On searching Ubuntu Software app for Emacs I am presented with two guis, Lucid and Gtk. Which one should I choose and why?
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How to toggle fullscreen in Emacs GUI mode (`Full Screen` option is greyed out in Kubuntu)?

This is such a basic question but I am really at a loss (a google search only revealed solutions for OS X). Until recently, I primarily used terminal mode (which I can make full-screen using my desktop environment's full-screen shortcut for the…
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Use Super in emacs -nw in linux

I have been struggling to find a simple and direct question to the answer and therefore I have decided to ask here. Q: Is there a way to use Super in Emacs launched in a Terminal in Linux? P.S: I read a lot of information about xmodmap but I think…
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Problem " is undefined" appearing when typing Greek stress ( ' )

I started using Emacs and I wrote a text in Greek. The problem is that the stress that is used upon some letters (ό, ύ, ί, ύ) doesn't work! It is usually inserted by pressing the ; (I mean by pressing the key next to L) and then the letter upon…
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Possible to "detach" a child process?

I use browse-url/browse-url-firefox to open links in Firefox from within Emacs 24.5.1 under Linux (Fedora 23) which in essence executes the firefox executable with the URL by start-process. If there is already a Firefox instance running, this will…
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How does emacs respond to Unix signals?

I'd like to know how GNU Emacs responds, by defaults, to such signals as HUP and USR1. Is this behavior documented in any manual? If so, where? If not, is there a place I could look in the source code?
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xclip hangs shell-command

I like to use the xclip utility to capture the output of commands on the clipboard. However, when I try to use it with shell-command it seems to hang. In a "normal" shell I can run a command such as echo "hello world" | xclip -selection clipboard…
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Copy/paste between SSH terminal Emacs and macOS

Suppose you are working in macOS, and you decide to SSH into a Linux box and fire up terminal Emacs. How do you copy and paste between macOS and your SSH terminal-Emacs? Copying and pasting between macOS and local terminal-Emacs is not a problem…
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how to disable automatic dos mode?

Many versions ago, if you opened a dos-line-end file on Linux you would see the extra ^M codes. Now it automatically recognizes the situation and puts "DOS" in the info bar and hides the extra ^Ms. How can I exit "DOS" mode and switch back to Unix…
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Emacs can't save history of recent visited files opened in current session before shutdown

I have a problem with emacs started as daemon using Systemd. Every shutdown/reboot if I don't stop emacs daemon service manually, the history of recent opened files in current session is lost. I think this is because of the Systemd that can't…
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Emacs cursor color is different in daemon and non-daemon modes

There's some weird stuff I encounter when running Emacs under KDE. Here's how it looks when I run it normally, via the emacs command: If I run it as a daemon, here's what I see: And if I run customize-face cursor in the emacsclient, here's what I…
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