giacomo> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- giacomo> Pre Scriptum: i don't receive the mailing list anymore... is there a giacomo> problem upstream or it's just me? also, as i don't see the list, won't giacomo> you mind to CC me? I'm not aware of any mailing list problem. What is the E-mail address you subscribed to xemacs-beta, if it differs from to To-address? Adrian giacomo> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- giacomo> (insert (emacs-version)) giacomo> XEmacs 21.5 (beta7) "broccoflower" [Lucid] (i586-pc-linux) giacomo> of Mon Jul 29 2002 on boffi95 giacomo> i have updated my sources, built and installed xemacs, then i started giacomo> gnus giacomo> all the faces gnus uses are now almost unreadable, as gnus has come to giacomo> think that my frames have a dark background, and thus uses light, giacomo> unsaturated nuances of color... --- this is plainly wrong, as i have giacomo> had in my custom.el giacomo> /------------------------------------------------------------ giacomo> | (custom-set-variables giacomo> | ... giacomo> | '(frame-background-mode 'light) giacomo> | ... giacomo> \------------------------------------------------------------ giacomo> for ages giacomo> i have to say that my default background, set via x resources, is giacomo> really darkish, but it's used only for the interface elements, while giacomo> the text area uses a very light pixmap (see figure n. 1) giacomo> if i remember well, i experienced before this bug, and someone (andy giacomo> or steve?) had a patch to fix it... -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/

|--==> "gb" == giacomo boffi <giacomo.boffi(a)polimi.it&gt; writes: gb> if i remember well, i experienced before this bug, and someone gb> (andy or steve?) had a patch to fix it... C-h a frame-background-mode may help. SY> Andy? Steve (T I'd presume)? Any ideas? Custom needs thorough overhaul. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py