Re: gnu emacs 22.1 with xft: problems with background color of empty regions

[Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>]

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:18:47 -0700 Joe Brenner <doom@kzsu.stanford.edu> wrote:

> I've compiled the emacs 22.1 source code on an amd64-based gnu/linux box
> (kubuntu), using the --with-xft and --with-gtk options:
>
>  ../emacs-22.1/configure --with-gtk --enable-font-backend  --with-xft --prefix /usr/local/emacs/xft_22.1
>
> I typically use a light-on-dark color scheme, but this has
> problems in this xft-enabled emacs.  Empty regions on the screen
> are coming up a blinding white, ignoring my background color
> settings.  Here's a screen shot:

This looks very much like what I used to get with gtk-qt-engine,
cf. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs/18115.  Are
you using this, since you're also using KDE?

> Note: a vanilla version compiled without xft support has no
> such problem:
>
>    http://obsidianrook.com/data/emacs22.1-vanilla.jpg

I cannot account for the difference you describe (the pictures don't
show it, however; I assume the latter screen shot is mistaken).  I
guess you built from the unicode2 branch, since the
--enable-font-backend and --with-xft options are not in the trunk.
Maybe the interaction with gtk-qt-engine there (if that's the problem)
is different from the trunk.

Steve Berman