Re: [External] : Cannot see what is written on modeline

[michael-franzese]

I will check.

> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 7:53 PM
> From: "Robert Thorpe" <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>
> To: michael-franzese@gmx.com
> Cc: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [External] :  Cannot see what is written on modeline
>
> I think there is some confusion about X resources here.
>
> By default the X windowing system doesn't set any of the things that
> we've been talking about.  If you start with X and no special
> configuration then Emacs uses the Emacs default settings.
>
> X resources are something that someone sets.  In this case you have set
> an X resource for some reason that has interferred with Emacs'
> functioning.  The X windowing system itself has not created that
> setting.  Someone doing configuration has created that setting.
>
> Maybe you copied an X resource snippet from the internet and that has
> caused this.
>
> At an outside chance it may be the distro that you are using that has
> added this X resource.  If so, that is a bug in the distro and should be
> reported to the distro maintainers.
>
> To check whether that is the cause you can create a new user account.
> If "emacs" is run from that new account it should look like "emacs -Q".
> If it does then a user-added X-resource is the problem.  If the same
> contrast problem occurs then the the distro probably has a bug.
>
> This is the first time I've heard of a problem like this for Emacs.  I
> don't think it warrants a change to the way Emacs works.
>
> BR,
> Robert Thorpe
>
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