Re: modeline colors

[Eli Barzilay]

Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org> writes:

> Does anyone know why in some versions of Emacs (specifically, the one
> shipped with FC6: 21.4.1), changing the default background disables
> my modeline color setting?
> 
> If I put this (and only this) in my .emacs:
> 
>   (set-face-background 'modeline "red")
>   (set-face-background 'default "blue4")
> 
> I get a modeline with the default color.  After Emacs has already
> started, evaluating that first line again produces the expected
> result.  Is this some corner case bug?

FWIW, the problem disappeared.  I think that something was broken on a
low level, perhaps even something in X.
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