> On Aug 14, 2017, at 5:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: Artemio Gonzalez Lopez >> 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