Subject: Re: bug#43396: 27.1; Customized "cursor" face has no effect in daemon mode

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2021 14:22:28 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> The "cursor" face's background attribute can be customized to change
>> text cursor's color. However, customized cursor does not have any effect
>> in Emacs session which is started with "emacs --daemon" in KDE Plasma
>> desktop system.
>
> I think you need to do that in server-after-make-frame-hook instead,
> to make it work in a daemon session.  When the daemon reads your init
> file, it doesn't have a GUI frame to play with, so some
> display-related customizations don't work until there's a frame.

Is this a bug, or just how this has to work?  If it's the latter --
should this be documented more thoroughly?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no