Re: unknown face (used for dialogs) looks bad on dark background

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 11:10:58 +0100
> 
> > The manual says that X toolkit's popup menus are controlled by X
> > resources whose names begin with "Emacs.menu*".  Could you see if you
> > have some resources like that?
> 
> Hm, I have no .Xdefaults file and the Emacs related content of the
> .Xresources file is in my first message.  The important ones are
> these:
> 
> Emacs*Background:             #304020
> Emacs*Foreground:             NavajoWhite
> 
> When I comment these out, the dialog uses black on grey.  When I use
> these two resources, however, the dialog users navajo white on grey.
> It uses the foreground resource and not the background resource.
> 
> Sorry for being unclear.  Does it make more sense now?

How about the other places where X resources are specified
(app-defaults etc.)?  Is it possible that something is specified
there?

You could also use `editres' (sp?) to see which resources control the
popup menu.  That might give some clues.