Re: unknown face (used for dialogs) looks bad on dark background

[maierh]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> > From: Alex Schroeder <alex@gnu.org>
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> > Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 11:10:58 +0100
> > 
> > > The manual says that X toolkit's popup menus are controlled by X
> > > resources whose names begin with "Emacs.menu*".  Could you see if you
> > > have some resources like that?
> > 
> > Hm, I have no .Xdefaults file and the Emacs related content of the
> > .Xresources file is in my first message.  The important ones are
> > these:
> > 
> > Emacs*Background:           #304020
> > Emacs*Foreground:           NavajoWhite
> > 
> > When I comment these out, the dialog uses black on grey.  When I use
> > these two resources, however, the dialog users navajo white on grey.
> > It uses the foreground resource and not the background resource.
> > 
> > Sorry for being unclear.  Does it make more sense now?
> 
> How about the other places where X resources are specified
> (app-defaults etc.)?  Is it possible that something is specified
> there?
> 
> You could also use `editres' (sp?) to see which resources control the
> popup menu.  That might give some clues.

FYI with Motif Version 2.1.30 editres causes a SIGSEGV in emacs

  GNU Emacs 21.1.2 (i586-pc-linux-gnu, Motif Version 2.1.30) of
  2001-11-06 on hera

  $ gdb emacs
  Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
  0x404ef1a5 in chunk_free () from /lib/libc.so.6
  (gdb) xbacktrace

xbacktrace produces nothing!

With the X toolkit all works fine.

  GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
  of 2001-10-23 on harmonia [2 times]

Harald