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M-x load-theme does not change background color

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From: Jan Djärv <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Brendan Miller <catphive <at> catphive.net>, 9982 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9982: Theme faces wrongly applied after background changes.
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:02:16 +0100

Hello.

29 jan 2012 kl. 14:28 skrev Chong Yidong:

> Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The theme-face is coming from `font-setting-change-default-font' in
> dynamic-settings.el:
> 
>    (let ((spec (list (list t (face-attr-construct 'default)))))
>      (progn
>        (put 'default 'customized-face spec)
>        (custom-push-theme 'theme-face 'default 'user 'set spec)
>        (put 'default 'face-modified nil))))))
> 
> As this function is written, it's not going to play nicely with the
> Customize or Custom themes code.  It tries to apply the system font
> settings by pretending that the user has customized the default face.
> The problem is that user customizations override Custom themes.

Then does menu-set-font (the command for the menu choice "Set Default Font") have the same problem?  The code was taken from there.

	Jan D.

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