Martin Buchholz writes:
GB> 2. i can set the tabs bg color with editres, but when emacs gains the
GB> focus the tabs are redrawn with mycolor4 (i.e., generic bg color)
That's probably as designed. Specifiers control the display of faces.
i started playing with X resources as i have
(custom-set-variables
...
'(buffers-tab-face (quote holiday-face))
...)
in my .emacs, but buffers-tab happily diregards my customization