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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 43396@debbugs.gnu.org, tlikonen@iki.fi
Subject: bug#43396: 27.1; Customized "cursor" face has no effect in daemon mode
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2021 15:47:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eed78d1z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgvv6znf.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sat,  12 Jun 2021 14:22:28 +0200)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>,  43396@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2021 14:22:28 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> The "cursor" face's background attribute can be customized to change
> >> text cursor's color. However, customized cursor does not have any effect
> >> in Emacs session which is started with "emacs --daemon" in KDE Plasma
> >> desktop system.
> >
> > I think you need to do that in server-after-make-frame-hook instead,
> > to make it work in a daemon session.  When the daemon reads your init
> > file, it doesn't have a GUI frame to play with, so some
> > display-related customizations don't work until there's a frame.
> 
> Is this a bug, or just how this has to work?

Frankly, I'm not sure.  Given the workaround the OP posted, it sounds
like it could be a subtle bug somewhere: custom-set-faces doesn't seem
to call face-set-spec in the daemon case.





  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-12 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-14 13:23 bug#43396: 27.1; Customized "cursor" face has no effect in daemon mode Teemu Likonen
2020-09-14 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-14 15:58   ` Teemu Likonen
2021-06-12 12:22   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-12 12:47     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-06-13  7:56       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-28 10:09         ` Teemu Likonen
2021-06-28 11:54           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-28 12:51             ` Teemu Likonen
2021-06-28 14:53               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-28 17:07                 ` Teemu Likonen
2021-06-28 17:24                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-28 18:47                     ` Teemu Likonen
2021-06-29 12:21                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-29 13:38                         ` Teemu Likonen
2021-06-30 12:14                         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-30 12:29                           ` Eli Zaretskii

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