From: kgold@watson.ibm.com (kgold)
Subject: Re: X Resources?
Date: 13 May 2005 17:33:55 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4284e503_2@news1.prserv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5003.1115967988.2819.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Greg Novak <novak@dionysus.ucolick.org> writes:
> A long time ago I put the following two lines in my .Xresources file
> to give Emacs a nicer color scheme (in my opinion).
>
> ! Set the modeline colors.
> Emacs.modeline*attributeForeground: Black
> Emacs.modeline*attributeBackground: AntiqueWhite1
>
> Some time ago, maybe even years ago, they stopped working, and I just
> now decided I'd try to figure out what was going on. I used "editres"
> to try to figure out what X resource I should be setting, thinking
> that the name had changed. However, I couldn't find anything that
> looked like the right thing.
>
> Is this even how this is done anymore? I'm running Emacs 21.2 on OS X
> 10.4, built for X11 (obviously), not Carbon.
I avoid using X resources whenever possible, as I try to share my
.emacs between Windows and Unix machines. Here's a snippet:
(set-face-foreground 'modeline "navy")
(set-face-background 'modeline "lightblue1")
--
Ken Goldman kgold@watson.ibm.com 914-784-7646
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-13 17:33 UTC|newest]
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2005-05-13 7:33 ` X Resources? Stefan Monnier
2005-05-13 17:33 ` kgold [this message]
2005-05-14 7:16 ` don provan
2005-05-16 5:51 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2005-05-19 7:40 ` don provan
2005-10-31 18:30 ` Susan Pinochet
2005-05-13 7:01 Greg Novak
2005-05-13 8:35 ` Peter Dyballa
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