From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't load any color themes in emacs 25 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:07:47 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20160926180747.GE3442@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <20160925192146.GD3442@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474913321 12880 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2016 18:08:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:08:41 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 26 20:08:36 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1boaKP-0002Tq-0I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:08:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46021 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boaKN-0007OK-ER for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:08:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57227) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boaJl-0007O4-Jj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:07:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boaJg-0001In-J6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:07:53 -0400 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:34036) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boaJg-0001Gz-AT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: by linus.johnson.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D309D200578; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:07:47 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160925192146.GD3442@mail.akwebsoft.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 64.4.232.191 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111394 Archived-At: * Tim Johnson [160925 11:26]: > I've installed GNU Emacs 25.1.1 on ubuntu 14.04. > The previous version is 24.3.1 > > The default color scheme is great, but running load-theme for any > installed theme does not give me the color scheme that I expect. > *Messages* shows nothing of concern on startup. The background > remains light. > > I would guess that some setting has a value that is forcing the > background to a something close to white, (regardless of theme > selection) but don't know where to look for it. FYI: I have not _found_ the problem, but I've eliminated the symptoms, so to speak. I removed the Custom section from my init file. As soon as that was done, switching color themes showed correct fontification. I saved the original init file, in case someone might (for their edification or because they're an emacs developer team member) be interested in looking at the custom section. I would add that I've had numerous problems with loading desktop files that were created in version 24. (I keep a desktop file for every project). In some cases, I've just recreated the "project file" and in other cases there have been error messages regarding symbol names that have lead me to sections of the file that contain such a symbol name, and I've just deleted the enclosing form. I've been know to get crabby about "featuritis" and frequent updates, but all in all; I am so far favorably impressed with the upgrade. cheers -- Tim http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com