Georg Nikodym <georgn(a)canada.sun.com&gt; writes: Here it works. Note that when font-menu-this-frame-only-p is t the code is exactly the same as the old font menu the new custom related code is only invoked when font-menu-this-frame-only-p is nil. Funny that font-menu-this-frame-only-p is t for you. It defaults to nil. Can you reproduce this with xemacs -vanilla and just scratch buffers? Secondly. You are running with the latest version of x-font-menu.el ? In particular one that has this snippet ;; If we need to be frame local we do the changes ourselves. (if font-menu-this-frame-only-p ;;; WMP - we need to honor font-menu-this-frame-only-p here! (set-face-font 'default new-default-face-font (and font-menu-this-frame-only-p (selected-frame))) ;; OK Let Customize do it. (when (and family (not (equal family from-family))) (setq new-props (append (list :family family) new-props))) Without this change I can understand the behaviour but if you are really running the latest I am at a loss. Jan