Achim Gratz writes: > After the latest Cygwin update I'm hitting an interesting problem with > emacs-nox running in a mintty: when Emacs starts, it decides that the > background color is gray instead of the usual white (for all but the > rightmost character in the status line, interestingly enough). I have > the normal mintty background set slightly off-white (to #F8F8F8) and > mintty reports itself as xterm-256color (the same happens in when TERM > is set to screen-256color). Emacs starts up with the correct background > color, draws the status bar and the menu bar and only then switches the > background to gray. The gray it choses is very slightly lighter than > the status bar (so lightly in fact that I can make out the difference on > only one of my three monitors). Emacs really thinks it is using a white > background, as evidenced by the fact that (set-background-color "white") > will produce exactly the same result. I get my usual background back > with (set-background-color "#F8F8F8"), but I have no idea where the > wrong setting for the named color "white" comes from. > > I'm just trying this at home remotely logging in from a konsole terminal > on my Linux box: Here the background chosen is slightly darker than the > status bar, the status bar seems to be #B8B8B8 and the background for > "white seems to be #B4B4B4. Curious and curiouser...
Ken, did you have a chance to look into this? Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf rackAttack: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
