Re: modeline colors in emacs 24.2.1

[Ken Goldman]

On 12/5/2012 5:09 AM, Bernardo wrote:
> It was a dark and stormy night when Ken Goldman said  (05/12/12 06:17):
> > I just installed emacs 24.2.1 (on Windows 7 if that matters) and am
> > going through the usual task of porting my .emacs.
> >
> > I notice that the modeline seems to be reversed.  That is, what used
> > to be the foreground is now the background and vice versa.  The text
> > is appearing in the background color.  Is this a known change?  It
> > seems odd.
>
> i use half a dozen (mostly MS Windows, mostly under Remote Desktop) PCs
> at work, and have seen foreground/background modeline colours swapped --
> on *some* of them; they all use almost identical .emacs; this "feature"
> has been around for a while (probably since version 22.x) if indeed it
> is an Emacs feature and not a configuration problem;
>
> i've never had a closer look and just used a manually set variable in
> .emacs to swap the modeline colours

Yes, that was it.  When I view it locally, the mode line colors are 
correct.  When I use Remote Desktop Connection, they are reversed.

The local machine is XP.  The remote machines are XP/emacs 22 and 
Win7/emacs 24.

Is this a bug that should be reported?  Is there a work around?

I have a fast connection, and the colors can be displayed when I edit 
.emacs.