From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing default background color to #0C0C0C causes a different shade of black to appear in areas where there is text or whitespace. Bug or not? Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 07:51:29 +0200 Message-ID: <83k1ki2ala.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1544421008 17973 195.159.176.226 (10 Dec 2018 05:50:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 05:50:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 10 06:50:04 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gWES9-0004Vx-Op for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 06:50:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59285 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWEUG-0004t8-HX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:52:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41239) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWETq-0004t1-VV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:51:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWETm-00013P-AW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:51:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57404) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gWETm-00012i-6a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:51:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1503 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gWETl-00029G-Q7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:51:42 -0500 In-reply-to: (zch@cocaine.ninja) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118954 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2018 22:09:44 -0700 > From: zch@cocaine.ninja > > If I change the default background color to #0C0C0C I get a different > shade of black background where there is text or whitespace: > https://i.imgur.com/B7XIHCs.png > > This does not continue if I change the background to, say, red: > https://i.imgur.com/1S0nNHC.png > > Even with a fresh emacs session, ``emacs -Q'' does not alleviate the > issue https://i.imgur.com/PuvtB8q.png If you mean that the background is different depending on whether there's text or whitespace, then your screenshots don't show that, and I'm guessing this is something local on your system, like some issue with your video driver/display.