bug#58912: 29.0.50; set-face-attribute call in init.el has no lasting effect

[Po Lu]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> Depends on the attribute.
>
> If I set :foreground, it is retained both under X and -nw. :background too.
>
> If I set :underline, it is retained under -nw, but not under X. But
> that includes an older branch which I haven't merged master to for a
> while, which I use daily.
>
> Underline similarly appears briefly during startup but then goes
> away. Same for :inverse-video. All under X (-nw keeps them).
>
> Said branch doesn't touch anything display-related, so it should
> behave like master a few months ago.
>
> The difference seems to be that the most recent master also does that
> to attributes :height and :family.

If you run "xrdb -query", what is printed?