White background problem

White background problem

[Klas Nordberg]

Recently, I installed RedHat Linux 7.2 without any major problems, and I
got emacs version 20.7-41 which worked fine.  However, when I later
installed all the rpms related to bug fixes and updates something has
happened to the visual appearance of my emacs.

Previously there was a dark green background color and light yellow
characters. After the updates, the background is the same (dark green)
but all characters (except those in the status line at the bottom) are
displayed in black on white background.

As far as I can see, I did not make any update of emacs after the 7.2
installation, so this problem may be related to other programs or
packages which emacs interacts with.  Since there where ~100 packages
updated, I have no idea where to look.

The last changes in .emacs and .Xdefaults are before emacs worked fine.

Any help/suggestions on how to remove this annoying effect is highly
appreciated.


Klas Nordberg

Re: White background problem

[Greg Hill]

Klas,

Your new installation probably has a different definition for your 
default face than your old one.

Try using M-x customize to set the value of your Default face (under 
Faces, Basic Faces) to light yellow on dark green, and save it for 
future sessions.  This will put something like

(custom-set-faces
  '(default ((t (:foreground "light yellow" :background "dark green")))))

in your .emacs file.

--Greg

At 11:14 PM +0000 4/22/02, Klas Nordberg wrote:
>Recently, I installed RedHat Linux 7.2 without any major problems, and I
>got emacs version 20.7-41 which worked fine.  However, when I later
>installed all the rpms related to bug fixes and updates something has
>happened to the visual appearance of my emacs.
>
>Previously there was a dark green background color and light yellow
>characters. After the updates, the background is the same (dark green)
>but all characters (except those in the status line at the bottom) are
>displayed in black on white background.
>
>As far as I can see, I did not make any update of emacs after the 7.2
>installation, so this problem may be related to other programs or
>packages which emacs interacts with.  Since there where ~100 packages
>updated, I have no idea where to look.
>
>The last changes in .emacs and .Xdefaults are before emacs worked fine.
>
>Any help/suggestions on how to remove this annoying effect is highly
>appreciated.
>
>
>Klas Nordberg
>
>
>
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Re: White background problem

[Fernando Dobladez]

If you use KDE 2.x, this might be the problem.... KDE tries to change 
the colors of non-KDE applications to match your KDE settings.

 From a previous posting:

=====================

In KDE, go to Preferences/Look&Feel/Style, there's a checkbox that says 
"apply fonts and colors to
non-KDE apps"
If you uncheck that, it should not interfere with your Emacs (you may 
need to re-start KDE).

But, if you want to keep that feature turned on without interfering with 
your Emacs, modify the
file Emacs.ad (search in 
/usr/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults/Emacs.ad). That's where you tell
KDE how to set the Xresources to the Emacs application.

I have the following lines commented out so that they don't change my 
Emacs colors:
----
!Emacs.default.attributeForeground:    WINDOW_FOREGROUND
!Emacs.default.attributeBackground:    WINDOW_BACKGROUND
!Emacs*Foreground:          WINDOW_FOREGROUND
!Emacs*Background:          WINDOW_BACKGROUND
;Emacs*font:                FIXED_FONT
-----

In this way, KDE still changes the colors/fonts of other applications 
AND also some things in
Emacs (like the Menubar for example, which matches the KDE-menus 
colors/font).

Good luck!

Fernando//


=====================

Klas Nordberg wrote:

>Recently, I installed RedHat Linux 7.2 without any major problems, and I
>got emacs version 20.7-41 which worked fine.  However, when I later
>installed all the rpms related to bug fixes and updates something has
>happened to the visual appearance of my emacs.
>
>Previously there was a dark green background color and light yellow
>characters. After the updates, the background is the same (dark green)
>but all characters (except those in the status line at the bottom) are
>displayed in black on white background.
>
>As far as I can see, I did not make any update of emacs after the 7.2
>installation, so this problem may be related to other programs or
>packages which emacs interacts with.  Since there where ~100 packages
>updated, I have no idea where to look.
>
>The last changes in .emacs and .Xdefaults are before emacs worked fine.
>
>Any help/suggestions on how to remove this annoying effect is highly
>appreciated.
>
>
>Klas Nordberg
>
>
>
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>