Re: problem with Emacs 25.2.1 under Mac OS 10.13 beta 5

["Artemio González López" <artemiog@mac.com>]

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> On Aug 14, 2017, at 5:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: Artemio Gonzalez Lopez <artemiog@mac.com>
>> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:35:39 +0200
>> 
>> I've been using Emacs 25.2.1 (downloaded from emacsformacosx.com) with 
>> several developer betas of Mac OS 10.13. I had no problem until the 
>> latest (beta 5), which does not render properly the fringes and the 
>> header/mode lines in Emacs windows. More precisely, it renders them in 
>> solid black, which in particular makes it virtually impossible to read 
>> the text messages in the header/mode lines. I am attaching two png 
>> files, showing how a window is rendered now (Fig. 1) and how it should 
>> be rendered (Fig. 2). This is probably a bug in macos's CoreGraphics (in 
>> fact, I've filed a bug report to the effect). However, while the bug is 
>> fixed (I hope in the next beta release!), I thought perhaps there could 
>> be a way of manually setting the background color of the fringes and 
>> header/mode which is not overridden by macos. Any suggestion in this 
>> respect would be very welcome!
> 
> AFAIU, the problem manifests itself in the inability of Emacs to load
> the colors it wants to use.  So one possible workaround would be to
> find out which colors it _can_ load, and customize the 'fringe' face
> to use one of those colors.
> 
> To find which colors are available, use "M-x list-colors-display”.

After deleting the file ~/Library/Colors/Emacs.clr, everything went back to normal. Thanks a lot for pointing me in the right direction!

Artemio Gonzalez Lopez
artemiog@mac.com





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