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Re: emacs --daemon and X faces becoming "unspecified"
From: |
Liang Wang |
Subject: |
Re: emacs --daemon and X faces becoming "unspecified" |
Date: |
Sat, 7 Feb 2009 15:45:59 +0800 |
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Jonathan Rockway <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Finally, if I just run "emacs" normally (not emacsclient -c), everything
> works fine. The color is "black" in customize, I don't get warning
> messages, and I can change the color and set/save.
>
> Anyway, any pointers on where to look for the cause of this would be
> appreciated. It doesn't seem to be a very critical problem, but it
> would be nice to understand what's causing it.
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan Rockway
>
> --
> print just => another => perl => hacker => if $,=$"
>
>
>
I had same issue before.
After I move almost all of other customization below custom-set-faces
in .emacs file, this problem is gone. I don't know why. :-)
Liang