<mike.fabian(a)mail.rhein-ruhr.de> writes:
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.
Sounds like the code that does the reverse video during a keyboard grab
is restoring the background for the default faces from the current buffers.
--pete