Re: customized default face doesn't work on new frames

[Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     If you customize the default face, it doesn't take effect on
>     subsequently-created frames, which is surprising.  The code somewhat
>     suggests this is intentional, but I can't see why and the behaviour
>     simply seems wrong.
>
> I think that is a bug.  Where exactly does the code suggest this was
> intentional?
>
> I tried it just now, changing the background of `default' to purple,
> and it did take affect for subsequently created frames--almost.

The behaviour is different for different face attributes. For example
changing the height of the font is not propagated to new frames.

The same is true for the lisp functions:


Work for new frames:

(set-face-attribute 'default nil :foreground "red")
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :background "cyan")


Don't work for new frames:

(set-face-attribute 'default nil :height 240)
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "times")

    Oliver
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