Fonts on XEmacs menu almost illegible after software upgrade

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Rodney Sparapani writes:

 > This is a problem that popped up after a software upgrade for Sun Ray 
 > Server Software on Solaris.  The fonts on the XEmacs menu were almost 
 > illegible.  I haven't been able to track down where this is coming from 
 > and I have never seen a similar problem in over a decade of use with 
 > XEmacs on Solaris.  But, I just wanted to mention that there is a simple 
 > fix for these X related issues if anyone has forgotten.  I managed to 
 > fix it by copying the etc/Emacs.ad file that comes with XEmacs to 
 > /usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults/XEmacs and making a few edits (replacing 
 > Emacs* with XEmacs*).

Did the fonts supplied by Sun change?  What is the configuration of
your XEmacs?

The solution shouldn't have any effect, as AFAIK Emacs.ad is generated
from the defaults in XEmacs.  I'll have to look at what's going on
here more carefully.