Dmitry> I have posted some of these before, but no one Dmitry> answered. Can anyone help me with these: Dmitry> 1 Face specifiers with : do not work - for example any Dmitry> change to :background results in bright white background Dmitry> and nothing else. So this does NOT work: Dmitry> (custom-set-faces '(default ((t (:foreground "#a0a3a6" Dmitry> :background "#000000" :size "8.5":family "Courier"))) t)) At least (custom-set-faces '(default ((t (:foreground "black" :background "lavender"))) t)) works for me on (emacs-version) "XEmacs 21.5 (beta3) \"asparagus\" [Lucid] (i686-pc-linux, Mule) of Thu Dec 13 2001 on 211pc" and it worked on windows, too with 21.4.[3|4]. I know this doesn't help much but, but ":" does indeed work. Bye. Adam. -- Adam Duck (duck(a)cs.uni-frankfurt.de) Bockenheimer Landstr. 135 / Zi. 211 60325 Frankfurt/Main ______________________________________ A mouse is a device for focussing xterms.