The update of the mac port for emacs 27.2 includes this probably-interesting note: *** New hook mac-effective-appearance-change-hook. > Contributed by Peter Hardy. It looks like the code is in mac-win.el, viewable here: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/raw/a124e5d0ccb820095be99c78d51abfd36ee22d9b/lisp/term/mac-win.el HTH, ~Chad