Re: Face customisation ignored

[Javier]

Mick Bert <micbert75@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> and a chunk of my .Xresources
> 
> emacs*cursorBlibk:              true
> emacs*cursorColor:              #404040
> emacs*font:                     -*-fixed-*-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> !emacs*font:                     
> -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> !emacs*font:                     -*-nimbus mono
> l-medium-r-normal--0-0-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
> emacs*foreground:        #404040
> emacs*geometry:            140x80
> emacs*reverseVideo:        true
> emacs*toolBar:            true
> emacs*fullscreen:        false

Using emacs*reverseVideo might not be a good idea.
Try setting background and foreground explicitly.
For testing you can put the resources in the command line.

emacs \
    -xrm 'emacs*background:   #404040' \
    -xrm 'emacs*foreground:   #0099FF'

emacsclient does not accept the xrm option, I guess because
the Xresources are loaded only once at the server initialization.

You can customize the frames created by emacsclient with
--frame-parameters=ALIST
--eval "(progn (...) (...))"

(info "(emacs) emacsclient Options")
(info "(emacs) Table of Resources")

After you edit ~/.Xresources remember to do

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

Also, if you are using .Xresources you may want to try emacs compiled
with the lucid toolkit instead of GTK.  Some of the .Xresources
values do not work with GTK.  You should have a package
emacs-lucid or emacs24-lucid in your distro.