Re: mode-line face and window manager

[Richard Stallman]

     > It happens because some window managers set up X resources to control
     > this face.  It happens to me with GNOME.  That is an intentional
     > feature, I think.

    If mode-line must take from X resources then maybe mode-line-inactive could
    take a suitably different value.

That would be rather hard to do, given the facilities in Emacs now for
working with colors.  We'd need to write code to decide if two colors
are "too similar", and then figure out how to change mode-line-inactive.
It sounds like a hard problem to me.

Another solution is to ask the maintainers of that window manager
(metacity?) to turn off that feature for mode-line.  Can you tell me
how to write to them?