It's possible that some X resource hidden in my account is setting the background color. Can someone please tell me where to look for these resource settings?
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to emacs24 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1628707 Title: Highlighting a region in emacs is invisible because region color equals window color Status in emacs24 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: If you open an Emacs window in Plasma/KDE, and you try to highlight a region of text by dragging the mouse, no highlighting appears. This is because the color for highlighting a region is identical to the color for the window background. I believe this color clash occurs between Ubuntu's emacs24 package and Ubuntu's X resource settings. To reproduce, log into Plasma, remove your $HOME/.emacs init file (so you have no personal customizations), and run emacs in an X window: $ emacs The window's background color is a light gray. Then type any text, click and drag the mouse over the text (or use keystroke commands to define a region). No highlighting appears, because the "region" color is also light gray. You can see this by running the emacs command: M-x list-faces-display <ENTER> I'll attach a screenshot so you can see that the "region" highlighting doesn't show up. The problem goes away if you disable the Ubuntu-supplied emacs init files: $ emacs -Q This is why I suspect the color is set badly in the Ubuntu emacs24 package. You can see the X background color by running the "appres" command in a shell window, which proves a light gray background is set, the same color as region highlighting: *background: #eff0f1 I tried to find the file where this background color is set, but I was not successful. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: emacs24 24.5+1-6ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-38.57-generic 4.4.19 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-38-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Wed Sep 28 18:07:25 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-09-25 (3 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719) SourcePackage: emacs24 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs24/+bug/1628707/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
