Re: set-face-attribute in a .emacs file

[Gerd Moellmann]

David <dajo@frii.com> writes:

> (set-face-attribute  'fringe  (selected-frame)  :background  "red")

Thanks for the report, David.  I think the error is in using
selected-frame.  The X frame that later pops up isn't yet created at
this point, so what you really set here is the `fringe' face on a
frame that's dumped with Emacs.  It works if you change
the fringe face for newly created frames (which I think you'd
want anyway), with 

  (set-face-attribute 'fringe t :background  "red")