frame-background-mode is ineffectual

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Please also include any C or lisp back-traces that you may have. ================================================================ Dear Bug Team! i don't know if it's a bug of xemacs or a bug in my understanding of what's the intended function of frame-background-mode, but here it is my story... i use a dark background, that's used for the menubar, the toolbar and all the other UI thingies, and a light background pixmap as gnus and other packages have faces that differ in case of dark/light background, i put ------------------------------------------ (custom-set-variables ; [...] '(frame-background-mode (quote light)) ; [...] ) ------------------------------------------ in my custom .el, but gnus (and custom) uses and insists in using the faces that were designed and designated for a dark background (and some of these are really unreadable) thank you ================================================================ System Info to help track down your bug: --------------------------------------- uname -a: Linux boffi95 2.2.21 #1 Wed Jul 17 12:52:48 CEST 2002 i586 unknown unknown GNU/Linux ./configure '--with-athena=3d' XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" configured for `i586-pc-linux'. Compilation / Installation: Source code location: /home/gb/src/xemacs-21.4.10 Installation prefix: /usr/local Operating system description file: `s/linux.h' Machine description file: `m/intel386.h' Compiler: gcc -g -O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -Winline -Wmissing-prototypes -Wsign-compare -Wshadow Relocating allocator for buffers: no GNU version of malloc: yes - Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library. Window System: Compiling in support for the X window system: - X Windows headers location: /usr/X11R6/include - X Windows libraries location: /usr/X11R6/lib - Handling WM_COMMAND properly. Using Lucid menubars. Using Lucid scrollbars. TTY: Compiling in support for ncurses. Compiling in support for GPM (General Purpose Mouse). Images: Compiling in support for GIF images (builtin). Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Compiling in support for X-Face message headers. Sound: Compiling in support for sound (native). Databases: Compiling in support for Berkeley database. Internationalization: Mail: Compiling in support for "dot-locking" mail spool file locking method. Other Features: Inhibiting IPv6 canonicalization at startup. Compiling in support for dynamic shared object modules. Using the new portable dumper. 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