Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Jun 15 21:48:00 GMT 2017


On 6/15/2017 2:43 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Ken Brown writes:
>> 3. I evaluated (set-background-color "white").  This caused the
>> background to turn gray.  The mode line and menu bar didn't visibly
>> change.
> 
> That's the main problem and I can't figure out why it associates white with
> anything that doesn't have all the bits set in the RGB colorspec.

OK, let's focus on this problem.

Your original report, written on February 22, said that the problem 
started after the latest Cygwin update.  That means you would have 
installed emacs-25.1, if Emacs was updated at all.  But I've just 
checked that the problem already exists in emacs-24.5.  So maybe the 
problem was triggered by an update of some package other than Emacs, 
Mintty being the most obvious guess.  Can you check your 
/var/log/setup.log to see what was updated around February 22?

Ken


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