Bug 1140329

Still happening with emacs. Extremely annoying.

As a workaround until i found the culprit you can run
'gsettings get org.mate.SettingsDaemon.plugins.xrdb active false'
Couriously, exactly this plugin is responsible for setting the GdkColor map.

[rave@mother github-matedesktop]$ grep -n -i 'WINDOW_FOREGROUND' mate-settings-daemon/plugins/xrdb/*
mate-settings-daemon/plugins/xrdb/msd-xrdb-manager.c:124:                             "WINDOW_FOREGROUND",

Maybe it is broken here or it isn't needed in rhel7.

Don't forget to restart session after gsettings command.

opps, right command is
gsettings set org.mate.SettingsDaemon.plugins.xrdb active false

mate-settings-daemon-1.8.2-2.el7 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 7.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/mate-settings-daemon-1.8.2-2.el7

Nice! But shouldn't this package now require cpp (for non-programmers)?

(In reply to Michael Lampe from comment #6)
> Nice! But shouldn't this package now require cpp (for non-programmers)?

Yes, i fix it in the same way like kde did it.
https://git.centos.org/blob/rpms!kde-workspace.git/511c81f3b376f326cd0f33c222b3f4b6e9a26aa4/SOURCES!kde-workspace-4.10.5-bz%231043686-cpp.patch
At mate upstream we think that something more general belongs to X in rhel7 cause this issue, because this fix isn't needed for f20/21.
But as fedora epel7 maintaner i don't have access on redhat git package resources, so it is imposible for me to search deeper.

Note, i edited the update right version is 1.8.2-3

Package mate-settings-daemon-1.8.2-3.el7:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=epel-testing mate-settings-daemon-1.8.2-3.el7'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2014-4024/mate-settings-daemon-1.8.2-3.el7
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

*** Bug 1148455 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

It works in Fedora, because xrdb provided by xorg-x11-server-utils explicitly requires mcpp and by default pre-process X resources through mcpp.

However, the xrdb provided by xorg-x11-server-utils from RHEL-7 doesn't pre-process X resources through mcpp, nor it requires mcpp:

%changelog
- xrdb: Default to -nocpp
- Drop Requires: mcpp to match; install cpp if you need it.

This is exactly what this mate-settings-daemon update did, so I think it's the correct fix.

(In reply to Jaroslav Škarvada from comment #11)
> %changelog
> - xrdb: Default to -nocpp
> - Drop Requires: mcpp to match; install cpp if you need it.
> 

Ups, change with header:

Wed Oct 02 2013 Adam Jackson <ajax> 7.7-2
- xrdb: Default to -nocpp
- Drop Requires: mcpp to match; install cpp if you need it.

Thanks for info Jaroslav,
this let me think that it should be fixed xorg-x11-server-utils.
No for mate, becauase epel7 is a third party repo from rhel7 point of view,
but kde is an official rhel7 desktop.

Here, someone from RH says that not preprocessing X resources in RHEL7 is deliberate: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1053891#c6

This fix in mate-settings-daemon is therefore required for EPEL7.

mate-settings-daemon-1.8.2-3.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.