Subject: RE: bug#8003: 23.1; Background of mouse is incorrect

From: Huafeng Zhou <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 17:00:18 -0800

The Emacs is distributed by Ubuntu 10.10.
Window manager: GNOME Version:2.32.0
Default display manager: XDM 1:1.1.8-6ubuntu2

-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Morris [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 3:55 AM
To: Huafeng Zhou
Cc: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: bug#8003: 23.1; Background of mouse is incorrect

Huafeng Zhou wrote:

> '(mouse ((t (:background "purple" :foreground "black" :box
> (:line-width 2 :color "black" :style released-button) :underline "black")))))
>
> But the background options is not effective when emacs is started
> again. Backgroun is always "white".
[...]
> In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0)
>  of 2010-03-30 on rothera, modified by Debian

I could not reproduce a problem with Debian's 23.2+1-7. As a guess,
perhaps some window manager / desktop environment theme is imposing
itself.