Re: frames and reading of .emacs?

[Jan Even Nilsen]

Martin Rydstr|m wrote:
> > > 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.

Sorry, my fault. Did work after new login (or was it reboot?).

> >>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").

Thanks, but unfortunately this did not help. At least now we can assume 
that it is a case of overriding and probably not failing to read the 
custom-set variable)

Even