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 10:54:43 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20160926185443.GF3442@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <20160925192146.GD3442@mail.akwebsoft.com> <20160926180747.GE3442@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 1474916129 502 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2016 18:55:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:55:29 +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 20:55:24 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 1bob3c-00073M-27 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:55:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46207 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bob3a-0002M3-Hn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bob3B-0002KW-2r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:54:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bob37-0002KF-4c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:54:49 -0400 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:34520) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bob36-0002Jp-Rs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:54:45 -0400 Original-Received: by linus.johnson.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BFBE5200578; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 10:54:43 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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:111397 Archived-At: * Drew Adams [160926 10:33]: > > 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 (but this does not speak to your difficulty). > > `load-theme' is not about color themes. It is about custom themes. > (It is too bad that Emacs borrowed the feature idea, changed it > to something different, and gave it a too-similar name.) > > See this page, about color themes and custom themes: > https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ColorThemes Thanks for clarifying 'load-theme and pointing out that distinction, and for the URL. (light-bulbs-going-off 'here) cheers -- Tim http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com