Paul Stodghill <stodghil(a)cs.cornell.edu&gt; writes: That is more like the old 'save-initial-default-font' solution. Try this one instead. This makes x-init-face-from-resources actually work like I described. i.e. if there have been no previous customizations, then apply the resources. As a bonus this also fixes the "background color reverts to grey when using font-menu problems" by slightly changing the way custom interacts with resources (custom now only overrides those resources you actually set). bolzano:/scratch/vroonhof/cvs/xemacs-20> cvs diff -u lisp/x-faces.el Index: lisp/x-faces.el =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs-20/lisp/x-faces.el,v retrieving revision 1.12 diff -u -u -r1.12 x-faces.el --- x-faces.el 1998/07/10 02:49:02 1.12 +++ x-faces.el 1999/02/18 02:09:12 ＠＠ -604,10 +604,10 ＠＠ (set-face-font 'default "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*") 'global) - (or (face-foreground 'default 'global) - (set-face-foreground 'default "black" 'global 'x)) + (or (face-foreground 'default 'global '(default)) + (set-face-foreground 'default "black" 'global '(x default))) (or (face-background 'default 'global) - (set-face-background 'default "gray80" 'global 'x))) + (set-face-background 'default "gray80" 'global '(x default)))) ;;; x-init-device-faces is responsible for initializing default ;;; values for faces on a newly created device. bolzano:/scratch/vroonhof/cvs/xemacs-20>