Re: Faces applies to new frames

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:
> I took a look at the problem that several people have reported regarding
> default faces not being applied to new frames (e.g. 47 and 120 in the
> bug tracker).
>
> AFAICT, the problem is that the default face is controlled by the `font'
> frame parameter, but this is not saved to default-frame-alist by
> internal-set-lisp-face-attribute.  In comparison, the foreground-color
> and background-color frame attributes are saved properly (see
> xfaces.c:3415 and 3470).  It doesn't seem practical to fix
> internal-set-lisp-face-attribute, but I think we can patch it up in
> faces.el.
>
> Could someone check whether this reasoning makes sense, and whether the
> attached patch to set-face-attribute makes things work properly?

Note that in my previous bug report about (apparently) this issue, the
"variable-pitch" face also failed to apply properly to new frames.  So
it's not just "default".

-Miles

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