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