Re: Faces of modeline and Gnus headers do not obey global setting any more

[Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>]

Torsten Bronger <bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de> writes:

> Robert Pluim writes:
>
>> From etc/NEWS
>>
>> +++
>> ** New face 'mode-line-active'.
>> This inherits from the 'mode-line' face, but is the face actually used
>> on the mode lines (along with 'mode-line-inactive').
>>
>> ---
>> ** The mode line now uses a proportional font by default.
>> To get the old monospaced mode line back, customize the
>> 'mode-line-active' and 'mode-line-inactive' faces not to inherit from
>> the 'variable-pitch' face, or add this to your "~/.emacs":
>>
>>   (set-face-attribute 'mode-line-active nil :inherit 'mode-line)
>>   (set-face-attribute 'mode-line-inactive nil :inherit 'mode-line)
>
> Thank you, this worked!  (Additionally, I had to revert the default
> colour for the inactive mode line.)

This single line worked for me:

(set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil :inherit 'default)

>> *** Gnus now uses a variable-pitch font in the headers by default.
>> To get the monospace font back, you can put something like the
>> following in your .gnus file:
>>
>>     (set-face-attribute 'gnus-header nil :inherit 'unspecified)
>
> For me, this didn’t work out-of-the-box.  Apparently, the colour
> “gnus-header” is defined rather late in the Gnus startup.  I had to
> write:
>
> (add-hook 'gnus-setup-news-hook (lambda () (set-face-attribute 'gnus-header nil :inherit 'unspecified)))
>
> Even the gnus-started-hook was not “late” enough.

The face gnus-header is defined in gnus-art.el, hence I added this to my
.gnus:

(with-eval-after-load "gnus-art"
  (set-face-attribute 'gnus-header nil :inherit 'unspecified))

Best, Arash