Re: modeline colors in emacs 24.2.1

[Ken Goldman]

On 12/5/2012 11:24 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Ken Goldman <kgoldman@us.ibm.com>
> > Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 10:24:15 -0500
> >
> > Yes, that was it.  When I view it locally, the mode line colors are
> > correct.  When I use Remote Desktop Connection, they are reversed.
>
> Ah, that.  Remote Desktop connections lie to Emacs about the number of
> colors that are available, so I think this is the reason.
>
> What does x-display-color-cells return on that remote desktop?

M-x   x-display-color-cells   says (no match)

The help says it's in the C source code.