Re: default-frame-alist vs. initial-frame-alist

[Tjernlund]

On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 08:55 +0100, martin rudalics wrote:
>  > app-editors/emacs:
>  >
>  >       Installed versions:  24.4(24)(21:17:20 21/10/14)(X acl alsa dbus
>  > gif gnutls gpm gtk gtk3 inotify jpeg png svg tiff xpm zlib -Xaw3d -aqua
>  > -athena -games -gconf -gfile -gsettings -gzip-el -hesiod -imagemagick
>  > -kerberos -libxml2 -livecd -m17n-lib -motif -pax_kernel -selinux -sound
>  > -source -toolkit-scroll-bars -wide-int -xft)
> 
> Hmm... I still have no idea which build you're using.  What does C-h C-a
> tell? 

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> 
>  > You don't see the odd foreground change or the need to set both lists?
> 
> No.  And AFAICT nobody could reproduce it so far.

Strange, I see this both at home and at work too:

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