Sorry, I should’ve been more thorough (commenting out that line fixed the problem for me in my setup). I’ll try to get a complete recipe up.

On Jun 17, 2016, at 12:21 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

 emacs -Q
 (add-to-list 'load-path "/path/to/smart-mode-line-master")
 (load-library "smart-mode-line")
 (sml/setup)
 (dolist (sym '(mode-line mode-line-inactive))
       (set-face-attribute
        sym nil
        :box `(:line-width 2 :color ,(face-attribute `,sym :background))))