[Bug 1628707] Re: Highlighting a region in emacs is invisible because region color equals window color

2021-10-06 Thread Ivan Zakharyaschev
I experience this or a similar problem with emacs-26 on Ubuntu 20.04 (the standard Gnome DE). Somehow having the "region" face set to having gtk_selection_bg_color makes the selected region not noticeable (or hardly noticeable?..). I have delete-selection-mode enabled. After changing it, it is OK

[Bug 1628707] Re: Highlighting a region in emacs is invisible because region color equals window color

2021-10-06 Thread Ivan Zakharyaschev
** Also affects: emacs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1628707 Title: Highlighting a region in emacs is invisible because region co

[Bug 1628707] Re: Highlighting a region in emacs is invisible because region color equals window color

2021-06-07 Thread Olivier Robert
This problem has been around for a long time now... It's probably compiled-in, and comes from the region face setup. By default, the region face background is set to gtk_selection_bg_color, which must correspond to light grey. It's possible to change this from the X interface in Options => Custom

[Bug 1628707] Re: Highlighting a region in emacs is invisible because region color equals window color

2021-06-07 Thread Olivier Robert
Some more information. It seems the problem comes from the fact that the concept of a background color has been deprecated in recent versions of GTK, and no replacement has been made in the Emacs codeĀ : https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2017-09/msg01099.html Emacs fails to load an

[Bug 1628707] Re: Highlighting a region in emacs is invisible because region color equals window color

2017-07-23 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: emacs24 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1628707 Title: Hi

[Bug 1628707] Re: Highlighting a region in emacs is invisible because region color equals window color

2016-12-19 Thread Joachim Klaehn
Hello, i have got the same problem. emacs -q shows the error emacs -Q doesn't lets me assume either emacs is doing something worong when getting x configuration or x config is wrong my work around was putting following line to my .emacs file (set-face-attribute 'region nil :background "#666" :f

[Bug 1628707] Re: Highlighting a region in emacs is invisible because region color equals window color

2016-09-28 Thread Daniel Barrett
It's possible that some X resource hidden in my account is setting the background color. Can someone please tell me where to look for these resource settings? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/b