Emacs will only display with black-on-white, unless a KDE emacs does not respect my .Xdefaults file even if I run 'xrdb -m .Xdefaults' make sure KDE is not applying its colours to non-KDE apps remove the .emacs file, which has it's own colour definitions If I upgrade to the emacs available with RedHat 6.0, Emacs respects the .Xdefaults file. (KDE-style doesn't look complete in this case ...)
