Paul Stodghill <stodghil(a)cs.cornell.edu&gt; writes: Then you lose. Partly by design unfortunately. You can not mix resources and customize (for now). However: One could argue that in this case customize is being to zealous as... none of the 'frames' will later match any of the settings and thus no settings will be applied. Yes, but that is intentional. Note the "seemed". There were just other failure modes. No it shouldn't. Note that face-spec-set does call init-face-from-resources later. So what should have happened (under X) was: - reset face is called - x-init-global-faces is called. This basically resets the 'default face to the compiled in values. - customize calls 'face-display-set', but as none of the display specs matches the (type mswindows) the default font the 'default face is is not modified. - init-face-from-resources is called. As the the default face has not been modified the X resources should be used. Could you find out why that does not work for you? Jan