GNU bug report logs - #9982
M-x load-theme does not change background color

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
Cc: Brendan Miller <catphive <at> catphive.net>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 9982 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9982: Theme faces wrongly applied after background changes.
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:08:51 +0800

> I investigated further.
> In the face-spec-recalc one does this:
>
> (let ((theme-faces (reverse (get face-sym 'theme-face))))
>       (dolist (spec theme-faces)
> 	(face-spec-set-2 face frame (cadr spec))))
>
> The problem is that for the default face we have set the background to
> black, but the theme variant of default is still white, so the
> background is painted white.

I installed xfce4 and can now reproduce the bug.  The problem is the
existence of the `theme-face' property for `default', which is present
at startup even with emacs -Q.  I don't know where this is coming from
either, but it rings a dim bell---I'll try to investigate further.

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