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From: Don Kauffman <dekauff@cox.net>
Subject: RE: Changing the Background and foreground colors in Emacs
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:27:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1159046831.9027.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICGELFDIAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>

I finally had an opportunity to work with this problem and solved it by
removing emacs completely then reinstalling it. I didn't have time to
figure out what the setting was that was causing my problem even though
that would have been my preferred approach.

A little draconian to be sure but, hey, it worked!

Thanks to all for their suggestions.

Don K.

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 13:08 -0700, Drew Adams wrote:
>     > I've been very frustrated trying to locate information on changing the
>     > background color in Emacs. Currently it is set to White text
>     on a Black
>     > background. I'd much prefer the reverse -- Black text on white
>     > background. I've looked through the manuals and there doesn't
>     seem to be
>     > anything listed about changing that. I've studied the
>     settings and there
>     > doesn't seem to be anything obvious there either.
>     >
>     > I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) although this happened with 5.10
>     > (Breezy). I was not able to get this resolved there either.
> 
>     It's not obvious, but it's there. Emacs uses the term "faces" for
>     fonts, font colors and such.
> 
> Yes and no.
> 
> Not just faces, for what the question was: frames too have foreground and
> background colors. Depending on the version of Emacs, these frame parameters
> might also be accessible via the `default' face.
> 
> In Emacs versions that don't have a face named `default', if you want to
> change the default appearance of all frames, then change the values of the
> frame parameters `foreground-color' and `background-color' in
> `default-frame-alist'. Command `list-faces-display' will tell you if a
> `default' face is defined.
> 
> 
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-23 21:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.7016.1158427753.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-16 19:20 ` Changing the Background and foreground colors in Emacs roodwriter
2006-09-16 20:08   ` Drew Adams
2006-09-23 21:27     ` Don Kauffman [this message]
2006-09-17 13:56 ` Hadron Quark
2006-09-18  6:00   ` Tim X
2006-09-19  0:13 ` jmg3000
2006-09-16 17:29 Don Kauffman
2006-09-16 17:36 ` Drew Adams

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