Re: mode-line face and window manager

[Nick Roberts]

Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > > The value for mode-line face seems to be taken from the window manager or
 > > theme.
 > 
 > How do you see this?  I see the following in faces.el:
 > 
 >     (defface mode-line
 >       '((((class color) (min-colors 88))
 >       :box (:line-width -1 :style released-button)
 >       :background "grey75" :foreground "black")
 >      (t
 >       :inverse-video t))
 > 
 > which seems to say that this face has the release-button style and
 > grey75 background color.
 > 
 > Where's the coupling with the window manager or theme?

That's my question really, presumably somewhere in the C code.  If I change
theme, the colour of the mode-line changes along with the colour of the
toolbar, while the colour of mode-line-inactive face remains fixed.


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