From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cannot see what is written on modeline Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 02:12:01 +0200 Message-ID: <878s4czyr2.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <87h7j1ylr4.fsf@telefonica.net> <87cztpylgi.fsf@telefonica.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20224"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:2aJLD7qb4vHSSBgHWfLQk/e5aF4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 18 02:12:38 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1linLh-000542-97 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 02:12:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57022 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1linLg-0005fk-CT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 20:12:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48704) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1linLI-0005fY-NS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 20:12:12 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:38226) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1linLG-0004vY-Vg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 17 May 2021 20:12:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1linLF-0004Ut-6P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 May 2021 02:12:09 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129852 Archived-At: wael-zwaiter@gmx.com writes: >> wael-zwaiter@gmx.com writes: >> >> > It happens when using "emacs27 -q". >> >> You already stated that on your original message. What about answering >> my question? > > With "emacs27 -Q" the contrast is not so bad and I can see the mode > line text. Ok. So try one after another these combinations: -q --no-x-resources -q --no-site-file -q --no-site-lisp and note which one causes the problem go away. I suspect your distro installs some customization that affects the modeline appearance.