bug#22343: 25.0.50; Incorrect rounding (?) when loading the Emacs.background attribute from Xresources

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Clément Pit--Claudel <clement.pitclaudel@live.com>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 16:19:50 -0500
> 
> This is a cute bug. Run the following two commands (in bash):
> 
> # Set Emacs.background in Xresources
> $ xrdb <(echo "Emacs.background: #2e3436")
> # Run Emacs with same background on default face
> $ emacs -q --eval "(set-face-attribute 'default nil :background \"#2e3436\")"
> 
> On my machine, the two colors are not rendered the same. I've attached a 
> screenshot. What essentially happens is that anywhere where text is drawn the 
> background is indeed #2e3436, but on the rest of the frame it's #2d3335. 
> Amusingly, these two colors have distinct RGB and HSL values, but their CMYK 
> and HSB values are the same (or so says http://rgb.to/hex/2d3335 and 
> http://rgb.to/hex/2e3436, at least).
> 
> The reason I came across this is that I use Emacs' tango-dark theme, which 
> uses that background color. Since I didn't like Emacs popping up with a white 
> background and immediately switching, I set the same background in my 
> .Xresources.
> 
> To observe the bug more clearly, just take a screenshot and open it in your 
> favourite image editor, then use the magic wand with a tolerance of 0 (see 
> other screenshot). Or use the color picker.
> 
> What could cause this problem? A roundtripping issue with color conversions?

Could this be the distant-background feature at work?