I cannot reproduce this issue any more.

On 12/2/21 4:03 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel@live.com> writes:
> 
>> This is a cute bug. Run the following two commands (in bash):
>>
>> # Set Emacs.background in Xresources
>> $ xrdb <(echo "Emacs.background: #2e3436")
>> # Run Emacs with same background on default face
>> $ emacs -q --eval "(set-face-attribute 'default nil :background \"#2e3436\")"
>>
>> On my machine, the two colors are not rendered the same. I've attached
>> a screenshot. What essentially happens is that anywhere where text is
>> drawn the background is indeed #2e3436, but on the rest of the frame
>> it's #2d3335.
> 
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
> at the time.)
> 
> I'm unable to reproduce this in Emacs 28 on Debian/bookworm.  Are you
> still seeing this issue in more recent versions of Emacs?
>