Re: finding the face of a popup

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:14:28 +0100 John Paul Wallington <jpw@pobox.com> wrote:

> Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> writes:
>
>> Some popups have become invisible; I believe they have
>> foreground=background=white.  Since I am using the color-theme
>> package, I do not claim this is an emacs bug and I am not asking for a
>> fix.
>>
>> My question is how do I find the name of this face.
>
> I'm not sure how to find that out, but the face's name is `tooltip'.
> That is the commonly used name for those small windows that popup to
> display information at the current mouse position.

Thank you.  I was able to modify the color theme to fix that face.

But I do hope there is a better way to find out the face of a popup
than asking on the list.

Thanks again,
allan