I agree that the the documentation is fuzzy on X resources.  To figure
out how to change the menu colors, I had to look at the source code!

Here's what I have for .Xresources:


! Lemacs
Emacs*XlwMenu.font:                             *-lucida-medium-r-*-14-*
Emacs*XlwMenu.horizontalSpacing:	       	10
Emacs*XlwMenu.verticalSpacing:			1
! I can't figure out if these are supposed to work
!Emacs*XlwMenu.arrowSpacing:			10
!Emacs*XlwMenu.cursor:				right_ptr
!Emacs*XlwMenu.horizontal:			1
!Emacs*XlwMenu.shadowThickness:			0
!Emacs*XlwMenu.topShadowColor:			?
!Emacs*XlwMenu.bottomShadowColor:		?

! Yes, the modeline can have its own fonts and colors!
Emacs*modeline.attributeFont:			*-lucida-medium-r-*-14-*

Emacs.geometry:					80x57-0-0
Emacs.EmacsScreen*geometry:                     80x57-0-0
Emacs.EmacsScreen*internalBorderWidth:          0
Emacs.EmacsScreen*interline:                    0
! You can change the cursors used by lemacs
!Emacs.EmacsScreen*textPointer:
!Emacs.EmacsScreen*spacePointer:
!Emacs.EmacsScreen*modePointer:
!Emacs.EmacsScreen*gcPointer:

! Courier has bold & italic versions so it works pretty well
Emacs*default.attributeFont:                    *-courier-medium-r-*-14-*

#ifdef COLOR
Emacs*cursorColor:  		                skyblue
Emacs*pointerColor:				skyblue
Emacs*pointerBackground:			black
Emacs*default.attributeForeground:              white
Emacs*default.attributeBackground:              #393344
Emacs*primary-selection.attributeForeground:    white
Emacs*primary-selection.attributeBackground:    purple4
Emacs*isearch.attributeForeground:		white
Emacs*isearch.attributeBackground:		green4
Emacs*secondary-selection.attributeForeground:	white
Emacs*secondary-selection.attributeBackground:	purple
Emacs*highlight.attributeForeground:		white
Emacs*highlight.attributeBackground:		blue4

! Used by a shell highlighting package supplied with lemacs
Emacs*shell-font.attributeForeground:		#99bbff
Emacs*shell-font.font:				*-helvetica-medium-r-*-14-*

! Font-lock mode
Emacs*font-lock-comment-face.attributeForeground:	#ffff99
Emacs*font-lock-function-name-face.attributeForeground:	#99ffff
Emacs*font-lock-keyword-face.attributeForeground:	white
Emacs*font-lock-string-face.attributeForeground:	#eeddbb
Emacs*font-lock-symbol-face.attributeForeground:	#eebbdd

! Mode-motion+ stuff
Emacs*modeline.attributeForeground:		white
Emacs*modeline.attributeBackground:		#775588

Emacs*mode-motion-face.attributeForeground:	#ffffee
! You can change the font on mode-motion+'s highlighting ... it
! looks really funny when you move the mouse around and the font
! suddenly gets bigger.
!Emacs*mode-motion-face.attributeFont:		*-courier-medium-r-*-14-*
!Emacs*mode-motion-face.attributeBackground:	black

Emacs*XlwMenu.foreground:                       white
Emacs*XlwMenu.background:                    	#775588
Emacs*XlwMenu.buttonForeground:			green

#else
! Setup for monochrome systems
Emacs*primary-selection.attributeForeground:	white
Emacs*primary-selection.attributeBackground:	black

Emacs*modeline.attributeForeground:		white
Emacs*modeline.attributeBackground:		black
#endif




		Amit
x-gateway: rodan.UU.NET from help-lucid-emacs to alt.lucid-emacs.help; Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:44:24 EST
Subject: Re: Help with "Buffers" menu
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 08:18:11 +1000
From: anthony%citr.uq.oz.au@lucid.com
Newsgroups: alt.lucid-emacs.help