Subject: Re: list-faces-display imposes its own background,doesn't respect special-display-frame-alist

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:07:42 -0400

tags 797 notabug wontfix
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"Drew Adams" wrote:

> Filed this bug in 2007, so it probably wasn't added to the new bug
> database. Below is the original report. 

Thanks for taking the time to tidy up and trim your report!

> Now, the symptom is that the parameters (e.g. background) of
> `default-frame-alist' are used for buffer *Faces*, instead of the
> parameters of `special-display-frame-alist'.

By design, M-x list-faces-display shows faces as they appear in the
frame from which it was called. Try calling it from a special frame,
or scrolling to the end of the sample faces.