[21.0.63] Bad interaction b/w customize and .Xdefaults

Suppose that you use .Xdefaults to setup the 'default face when you are running under X. itchy% xrdb -q | fgrep -i emacs Emacs*menubar*Font:-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-*-140-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* Emacs*menubar*Foreground:black Emacs.background:black Emacs.backgroundMode:dark Emacs.bitmapIcon:on Emacs.bold-italic.attributeFont:-*-Courier-bold-o-*-*-*-140-75-75-*-*-ISO8859-1 Emacs.bold.attributeFont:-*-Courier-bold-R-*-*-*-140-75-75-*-*-ISO8859-1 Emacs.default.attributeFont:-*-Courier-Medium-R-*-*-*-140-75-75-*-*-ISO8859-1 Emacs.font:-*-Courier-Medium-R-*-*-*-140-75-75-*-*-ISO8859-1 Emacs.foreground:white Emacs.italic.attributeFont:-*-Courier-Medium-o-*-*-*-140-75-75-*-*-ISO8859-1 itchy% But suppose that you use customize to set up 'default when you are running under mswindows, (custom-set-faces '(default ((((type mswindows) (class color)) (:foreground "white" :background "black"))) t) ...) faces.el contains the following code around line 1210 or so... (let ((frames (relevant-custom-frames))) (reset-face face) (if (and (eq 'default face) (featurep 'x)) (x-init-global-faces)) (face-display-set face spec) Here's what happens when custom-set-faces is working on the 'default face: 1) first the 'default face is reset. 2) next, x-init-global-faces is called, which, since the 'default face no longer has any attributes, sets 'default to fg:black, bg:grey80, etc. Where's the bug? Is it that x-init-global-faces is called in face-spec-set? It wasn't in 20.4, and everything seemed to work fine. Is it that x-init-global-faces doesn't call x-init-face-from-resources to try to setup 'default? Thanks for your help. -- Paul Stodghill <stodghil(a)cs.cornell.edu&gt; Dept. of Computer Science, Upson Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853 Phone: 607-254-8838 FAX: 607-255-4428 http://www.cs.cornell.edu/stodghil/