Yes, I am running KDE 2.1.1, and that was the problem! Everything works now. I did have to restart X to get this to work, however...
Thanks for your help!! --Aaron Daniel Katz wrote: > > >>>>> "Aaron" == Aaron Traas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Aaron> I'm using Woody/testing, and XFree86 4.x. I'm using emacsen > Aaron> flavor of Emacs20. > > Aaron> Basically, I set the background color to black, and that works, > Aaron> except or where there's text. Each character taken up by > Aaron> something other than whitespace has a white background. > > Are you running KDE? I saw behavior like this under KDE until I unset > the "Apply fonts and colors to non-KDE apps" checkbox in the control > center. On my system, it's in the ControlCenter->Look&Feel->Style > frame. I run KDE 2.2, when I run KDE. :-)
