Re: can't set both mode-line color and default frame font?

[Jan Djärv]

Richard Stallman skrev:
> Would someone please DTRT, then ack?

This is partly due to the known gnome-settings bug/feature.

Do
% xrdb -query|grep mode

and you will find something like:

Emacs.mode-line.attributeBackground:    #efebe7
Emacs.mode-line.attributeForeground:    #101010

The gnome settings daemon puts those values in there.

Bt why Emacs re-reads those values for the mode-line face when the
default-frame-alist is modifyed, I don't know.

I think it has to with this:

2007-09-07  Johan Bockgård  <address@hidden>

        * cus-face.el (custom-theme-set-faces): Set face attributes
        locally for each frame.

        Jan D.

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> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 20:34:16 +0200
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> On 9/9/07, Chris Moore <address@hidden> wrote:
>> My .emacs says:
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>> (custom-set-faces '(mode-line ((nil (:background "yellow")))))
>> (custom-set-variables '(default-frame-alist '((font . "10x20"))))
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>> but the mode line isn't yellow.
>>
>> If I remove the 2nd line, the mode line is yellow.
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>> Setting the font shouldn't stop me setting the mode-line face, should it?
>>
>> This was working fine until a day or two ago, in CVS trunk.
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> I was a little hasty there - I just switched from GNOME to XFCE4 and my
> .emacs is working again.  I hardly ever use GNOME, so maybe this hasn't
> changed in the last few days at all.
> 
> Evaluating the (custom-set-faces ...) s-expression once inside Emacs does
> set the mode-line to yellow in GNOME.  It just doesn't work from .emacs if I
> have the other line in my .emacs as well.
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> On 9/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Moore</b> &lt;<a 
> href="mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span 
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> My .emacs says:<br><br>(custom-set-faces &#39;(mode-line ((nil (:background 
> &quot;yellow&quot;)))))<br>(custom-set-variables &#39;(default-frame-alist 
> &#39;((font . &quot;10x20&quot;))))<br><br>but the mode line isn&#39;t yellow.
> <br><br>If I remove the 2nd line, the mode line is yellow.<br><br>Setting the 
> font shouldn&#39;t stop me setting the mode-line face, should it?<br><br>This 
> was working fine until a day or two ago, in CVS trunk.</blockquote>
> <div><br>I was a little hasty there - I just switched from GNOME to XFCE4 and 
> my .emacs is working again.&nbsp; I hardly ever use GNOME, so maybe this 
> hasn&#39;t changed in the last few days at all.<br><br>Evaluating the 
> (custom-set-faces ...) s-expression once inside Emacs does set the mode-line 
> to yellow in GNOME.&nbsp; It just doesn&#39;t work from .emacs if I have the 
> other line in my .emacs as well.
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