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X faces becoming "unspecified" with emacs -nw when creating an X11 frame
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
X faces becoming "unspecified" with emacs -nw when creating an X11 frame (was: Re: emacs --daemon and X faces becoming "unspecified") |
Date: |
Fri, 6 Feb 2009 10:48:21 -0800 (PST) |
Jonathan Rockway <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I've recently started using emacs --daemon + emacsclient -c as my
> primary means of interacting with emacs. Generally, it works great, but
> I have noticed that I can no longer set the default face via custom.
>
> In my custom-set-faces section, I have a line that looks like:
>
> '(default ((default (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground
> "gray90" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil
> :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 72 :width normal
> :foundry "bitstream" :family "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono")) (nil nil)))
>
> The key is that "background" is black. I do indeed get a black
> background, but if I view the default face in custom, custom thinks the
> background is "unspecified-bg". If I change this to something else and
> set or save the custom face, emacs goes into an infinite loop. (I can
> provide more details about this; C-g doesn't kill it, though.)
>
> Everything else generally works OK, except occasionally I get
> messages like ``Unable to load color "unspecified-bg" [6 times]'' in
> *Messages*. This doesn't seem to be causing any malfunction, though.
This looks like it's probably the same issue described in
bug #1078 at http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs/24298
I can reproduce the problem with a simplified testcase.
Put this in /tmp/FACE.el:
(custom-set-faces
'(default ((default (:stipple nil :background "black" :foreground
"gray90" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline nil
:underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 72 :width normal
:foundry "bitstream" :family "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono")) (nil nil))))
emacs -Q -nw -l /tmp/FACE.el -f server-start
and then use
emacsclient -c
The *Messages* will have a few
Undefined color "unspecified-bg"
messages.