Re: [External] : Cannot see what is written on modeline

[Óscar Fuentes]

wael-zwaiter@gmx.com writes:

>> Then you (or something you loaded) customized that face.
>>
>> The point in telling you about `M-x customize-face' was
>> that you can use that to revert to the uncustomized
>> (default) appearance, and you can use it to customize
>> faces to any appearance you like.
>
> Should emacs allow X-Resource customisations when the result is not good
> because it does not take into account computations based on the contrast
> ratio?

Yes, of course. Why Emacs should ignore what it is requested to do?

The user is always in power.

> I am of the view that emacs should by default set such things as the mode-line
> itself and not allow X-Environment to take over.

The purpose of .Xresources is to take over the default colors of Emacs
(or any other X application).

Better ask yourself why do you have an .Xresources file with settings
you don't like.