Re: Same 'face' spec initialized to different values for x and terminal

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

  > Dear Eli,
  > 
  > ----- Eli Zaretskii (2007-06-03) wrote:-----
  > 
  > >> From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
  > >> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:56:18 +0100
  > >> 
  > >> *NB*: emacs has a light background in both x and xterm. Thus it looks
  > >>  very weird the aforementioned face is initialized to the dark
  > >>  background value.
  > >
  > > Emacs cannot determine the background color on a text terminal, so it
  > > assumes something.  Without -nw, Emacs queries the window system about
  > > the default color, so it can adjust its background mode.
  > >
  > > Try setting frame-background-mode to 'light in the xterm case, and I
  > > think you will have the colors that you want.
  > 
  > There are altogether 5 faces defined in dictem.el.
  > 
  > With "emacs -nw -q -l dictem.el" in xterm, two of them initialize to
  > light background values and three of them to dark background values:
  > 
  >               .----------------------------------+-------.
  >               | dictem-reference-definition-face | light |
  >               |----------------------------------+-------|
  >               | dictem-reference-m1-face         | light |
  >               |----------------------------------+-------|
  >               | dictem-reference-m2-face         | dark  |
  >               |----------------------------------+-------|
  >               | dictem-reference-dbname-face     | dark  |
  >               |----------------------------------+-------|
  >               | dictem-database-description-face | dark  |
  >               `----------------------------------+-------'
  > 
  > Whatever emacs assumes for its background mode, something is wrong. I
  > hope someone can see this problem and fix it.

This seems to work properly on the multi-tty branch. That branch has
a few changes for initializing faces on different frames. If nobody
looks at this issue now, it will hopefully be fixed when the multi-tty
branch is merged.