Martin Buchholz writes: Martin> Let me add a bug report to the custom faces debate. Martin> Being perverse, I like my shell buffers to look different from all my Martin> other buffers. So I do something like this: Martin> Martin> (add-hook Martin> 'shell-mode-hook Martin> (lambda () Martin> (set-face-background 'default "midnightblue" (current-buffer)))) Martin> Martin> If I start a shell, then change fonts by doing Options->Size->14, my Martin> font sizes do indeed change, but my background color customization is Martin> gone. Subsequently started shell buffers are back to midnightblue. I noticed another strange behaviour when using the above set-face-background in the shell-mode-hook: In the *shell* buffer I type: chsh and get prompted for a password in the minibuffer. After entering the password, ALL buffers in the current frame have a "midnightblue" background, not only the *shell* buffer. I tried this with XEmacs 21.0.66 and 21.0.67. Mike -- Mike Fabian mike.fabian(a)mail.rhein-ruhr.de mike.fabian(a)gmx.de Termuehlenweg 2, D-40885 Ratingen-Lintorf, Telephone: +49(0)2102/893130