On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Uwe Brauer <oub.oub.oub@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi
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> I am running Ubuntu 14.04 and installed trinity R14 on top of it
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> I just compiled GNU emacs and tried to start it.
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> it crashes with
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> emacs
> Undefined color: "FOREGROUND"
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A few years ago, I had this problem once with KDE, but I don't remember the exact solution. I had to do something with .Xresources, . Xdefaults, and eventually run xrdb I think. I think you have to define a global color for X or something for both FOREGROUND and BACKGROUND.