Re: [External] : Cannot see what is written on modeline

[Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com>]

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