On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 04:11:33PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > when highlighting disappears, run "xrdb /dev/null" and restart emacs
So, wait. You're saying that it *works for a little while* after you log in, and then at some point later, it *stops working*? If that's actually the case, then maybe you can pinpoint the offending X resource by doing xrdb -query > working right after you log in (possibly after verifying that emacs is in fact working properly). Then, after it stops working properly, run the xrdb -query command again, but redirect it to a different file. Then use diff to see what changed.