Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: emacs22
Steps to reproduce:
Under X11/Gnome:
- remove ~/.emacs
- start emacs22
emacs22 starts in ugly black background, blue modeline, etc.
- using menu, start Customization Groups browser, select Faces -> Basic
Faces -> Default; change foreground/background to black/white. Click on
Set for Current Session, then Set for Future Sessions. Exit emacs.
A new ~./emacs file now is generated - now, in custom-set-faces, the
default font is black on gray. The mode-line background is Navy, the
widget-field background is DarkBlue.
- Start emacs22 again. Go to the customization groups browser, select
Faces -> Widget Faces -> Widget Field. Enter 'gray' as background.
Click on Set for Current Session and Set for Future Sessions. Exit
emacs.
Now the .emacs contains gray as background of the widget-faces.
- Start emacs22 again. Go to the customization groups browser, select
Faces -> Mode Line Faces -> Mode Line. Enter 'gray' as background.
Click on Set for Current Session and Set for Future Sessions. Exit
emacs.
Now the mode-line background in the .emacs file is gray.
But: the widget-field background is reset to DarkBlue.
If you start emacs22 again and set the Widget Field background to gray
through the Customize interface, then click on Set for Current Session
and Set for Future Sessions and exit emacs, you will see in the .emacs
file the widget-background is gray, but mode-line background is reset to
Navy.
I don't know if any other customization setting, when saved, reset the
mode-line and widget-field backgrounds to Navy and DarkGray, or if any
other settings are reset too.
Note that is happens on Ubuntu 7.04, updated regularly to the current
state with the aptitude. This is my computer at work. I'm running Debian
testing/unstable at home, I installed Debian's emacs22 package, and
there I can safely save customizations without faces being reset to
some other background color.
I have no idea if something that is left from my previous linuxes on my
current Ubuntu box at work can cause this - I installed first time
Ubuntu 6.04 onto the new computer and then copied my home directory from
my old Fedora 5 computer to the Ubuntu system. Since then, I upgraded it
to Ubuntu 6.10 and 7.04. Something from the old Fedora settings in my
home directory might be causing this...
** Affects: emacs22 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Customization of the faces is resetting
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/138966
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