Tags: patch Create a flat-button style for boxes. It is based on the simple button style but uses the background colour instead of the foreground colour for the box. This greatly simplifies the extension of Emacs themes to adapt them to modern GUIs where the buttons are flat. As an example, I like the mode-line to be a bit higher than the regular mode line (à la doom-modeline, but not as big): ;; Definition of the styles without the patch: ;; I need to look up my theme and get the colours from it. For ;; nord-emacs it looks like this ;; ;; '(mode-line ((t (:inherit mode-line :background "#434C5E" :box (:line-width 4 :color "#434C5E" ))))) ;; '(mode-line-inactive ((t (:inherit mode-line-inactive :background ;; "#3B4252" :box (:line-width 4 :color "#3B4252" ))))) ;; With the patch, I just need to indicate how many pixels higher (x 2) ;; I want the mode-line to be. I can reuse these settings across themes ;; '(mode-line ((t (:inherit mode-line :box (:line-width 4 :style flat-button))))) '(mode-line-inactive ((t (:inherit mode-line-inactive :box (:line-width 4 :style flat-button ))))) In GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2021-01-09 built on paag-EliteBook Repository revision: 29c7f8c915c3889dfd5b25878aa0692f826cd38f Repository branch: master Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12009000 System Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS Configured using: 'configure --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr '--includedir=${prefix}/include' '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man' '--infodir=${prefix}/share/info' --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-silent-rules '--libdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --program-suffix=28 --with-modules=yes --with-x --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --without-xaw3d 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/home/paag/Devel/emacs/emacs=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security' 'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro'' /Pedro A. Aranda -- Fragen sind nicht da um beantwortet zu werden, Fragen sind da um gestellt zu werden Georg Kreisler