Paul Stodghill <stodghil(a)cs.cornell.edu&gt; writes: I am confused. I thought the original problem was that face-spec-set called face-display-set which modified the default face although the display spec was ((mswindows ...)) and thus init-face-from-resources dis nothing? face-display-set uses face-spec-match-display which compares the device type against the display spec and should thus fail. You wrote that was not what happening... Anyway you seem to have enough info and a test case you can probably use edebug and find out exactly where this is going wrong. Jan