One of the best feature to have with Emacs when doing python development is to have a real time syntax error/warning check highlighted in your code to avoid many errors or superfluous code.
This code is taken from the brillant Emacswiki python page.
You need to install pyflakes first which should be available on your linux distro [...]

It does not seems that emacs started with –daemon read the .Xdefauls resource it seems that the only way setting it is by the default-frame-alist variable.
I have my setup like this :

(setq default-frame-alist ‘((font-backend . "xft")
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So if you have network-manager not detecting wireless networks it is probably because lately the driver need to be set as up to get the thing going.
On my Debian I have added this to make it works :
echo “/sbin/ip link set wlan0 up”|sudo tee /etc/default/NetworkManager