bug#43396: 27.1; Customized "cursor" face has no effect in daemon mode

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> The "cursor" face's background attribute can be customized to change
>> text cursor's color. However, customized cursor does not have any effect
>> in Emacs session which is started with "emacs --daemon" in KDE Plasma
>> desktop system.
>
> I think you need to do that in server-after-make-frame-hook instead,
> to make it work in a daemon session.  When the daemon reads your init
> file, it doesn't have a GUI frame to play with, so some
> display-related customizations don't work until there's a frame.

Is this a bug, or just how this has to work?  If it's the latter --
should this be documented more thoroughly?

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