Re: mode-line face and window manager

[Nick Roberts]

Richard Stallman writes:
 >      > It happens because some window managers set up X resources to control
 >      > this face.  It happens to me with GNOME.  That is an intentional
 >      > feature, I think.
 > 
 >     If mode-line must take from X resources then maybe mode-line-inactive 
 > could
 >     take a suitably different value.
 > 
 > That would be rather hard to do, given the facilities in Emacs now for
 > working with colors.  We'd need to write code to decide if two colors
 > are "too similar", and then figure out how to change mode-line-inactive.
 > It sounds like a hard problem to me.
 > 
 > Another solution is to ask the maintainers of that window manager
 > (metacity?) to turn off that feature for mode-line.  Can you tell me
 > how to write to them?

I don't know who to write to, but I'm not sure that we would ask the right
question anyway (a mode-line for a buffer without focus is presumably the
same kind of widget yet it's face is unaffected by Metacity for some reason).

I'd like to hear what Jan D has to say.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob