Tom Browder wrote: > When I use -Q highlighting works! That points at something in your .emacs.d settings as being the culprit. > I installed emacs-lucid (which removed emacs-gtk) and now highlighting > works (but other colors are changed). IIRC, GTK3 lets the user (theme) specify the color to be used for selection. So something else you could experiment with (using emacs-gtk) is different themes. cheers, mike