Jan Even Nilsen wrote:
BTW: The inclusion of the emacs related entry into a ~/.Xresources and
edit of these, did not help.
Resources in ".Xresources" aren't automatically activated (except on
some weird systems which confuse user-level app-defaults (which are
normally in .Xdefaults-`hostname`, or something like that)), but are
only loaded into the resource database when logging in via Xdm (or
similar). You probably need to do something along the lines of
"xrdb -merge .Xresources" to get any changes within a session.
>>2) The changing of the face for the marked region is somewhat of a
puzzle, but I can live with it. It nags me that some function
overrides my settings, though.
Yes, that's weird. One possibility is to explicitly set the back-
ground color of the face. (set-face-background 'region "goldenrod").