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27.1; Customized "cursor" face has no effect in daemon mode

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Message #19 received at 43396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 43396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, tlikonen <at> iki.fi
Subject: Re: bug#43396: 27.1; Customized "cursor" face has no effect in
 daemon mode
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2021 15:47:36 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi>,  43396 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2021 14:22:28 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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?

Frankly, I'm not sure.  Given the workaround the OP posted, it sounds
like it could be a subtle bug somewhere: custom-set-faces doesn't seem
to call face-set-spec in the daemon case.

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