Re: [trinity-users] [SOLVED] Undefined color: "WINDOW_FOREGROUND" and the old dot.trinity

The issue was solved, thanks to the most useful comments by three list participants. The first advice, by Gerhard Zintel, was a suggestion to simply uncheck one of the preferences via the TDE Control Center: *" I had the same issue before. I cannot clearly remember but try to un-check "Apply colors to non-TDE applications" in TDE Control Center => Appearence & Themes => Colors. "* That immediately worked, thanks Gerhard!  But then the next advice came from Nick Koretsky which also commented on the Gerhard's advice: *That's a bad solution - this checkbox is unfortunately named, it should be named "apply styles' - it govern not only colors, but also button styles, button placements and fonts in gtk apps The correct solution is to add following to you .xsession file ( sleep 10 xrdb -all -query|sed -e 's#[A-Z_]*BACKGROUND# gray90#' \* *-e 's#[A-Z_]*FOREGROUND# Black#'  \ -e 's#[A-Z_]*HIGHLIGHT# White#' \ -e 's#[A-Z_]*LOWLIGHT# Black#'|xrdb -merge ) &* I tried this as well, and it works and seems in fact to be more appropriate for our environment. I've applied it by adding to the system-wide script that is executed at login and does it one time per session. It works pretty well (and has no impact on gtk applications). So we'll stick to this method. Finally, another advice came from "iadest": *Hello Try to edit ~/.Xresourced adding: *.WINDOW_FOREGROUND: black Then execute command: xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources I had similar problems with Perl/Tk and *.BACKGROUND color. Maybe this solution will work for Emacs too.* *MCbx* As this solution was basically quite similar to that of Nick's which was already nicely implemented, I did not try this.. In any case, these advices saved me a day. Thanks a lot for all those who replied! Andy.