From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Cannot see what is written on modeline Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 08:53:03 +0100 Message-ID: <87v97fxiqo.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17932"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Christopher Dimech , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: michael-franzese@gmx.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed May 19 09:54:15 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 1ljH1x-0004MV-6H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 19 May 2021 09:54:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51970 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ljH1w-0001AT-8H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 19 May 2021 03:54:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47456) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ljH1b-0001AK-48 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2021 03:53:51 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp30.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.61]:33032) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ljH1Y-0003C0-Mi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 May 2021 03:53:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail02.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.11]) by outbound-smtp30.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 491AFBAAE5 for ; Wed, 19 May 2021 08:53:45 +0100 (IST) Original-Received: (qmail 25108 invoked from network); 19 May 2021 07:53:44 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO rt-inspiron-3480) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[51.37.90.145]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (AES256-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 19 May 2021 07:53:44 -0000 In-Reply-To: (message from Christopher Dimech on Tue, 18 May 2021 17:24:39 +0200) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=81.17.249.61; envelope-from=rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com; helo=outbound-smtp30.blacknight.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham 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:129919 Archived-At: I think there is some confusion about X resources here. By default the X windowing system doesn't set any of the things that we've been talking about. If you start with X and no special configuration then Emacs uses the Emacs default settings. X resources are something that someone sets. In this case you have set an X resource for some reason that has interferred with Emacs' functioning. The X windowing system itself has not created that setting. Someone doing configuration has created that setting. Maybe you copied an X resource snippet from the internet and that has caused this. At an outside chance it may be the distro that you are using that has added this X resource. If so, that is a bug in the distro and should be reported to the distro maintainers. To check whether that is the cause you can create a new user account. If "emacs" is run from that new account it should look like "emacs -Q". If it does then a user-added X-resource is the problem. If the same contrast problem occurs then the the distro probably has a bug. This is the first time I've heard of a problem like this for Emacs. I don't think it warrants a change to the way Emacs works. BR, Robert Thorpe