Selection pane font/face colour problem

Selection pane font/face colour problem

[Peter G.]

I have a minor problem with the colour in my "interactive selections"
under X.

For instance, if I choose the selection "save buffer as.." I get a
selection pane that looks like this:
http://img244.echo.cx/my.php?image=em1iz.jpg

My font/face foreground colour is obviously an inappropriate light-grey
colour. Does anybody know what face controls the colour or how else I
can change the colour of the font?

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Re: Selection pane font/face colour problem

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 31.05.2005 um 21:50 schrieb Peter G.:

> My font/face foreground colour is obviously an inappropriate light-grey
> colour. Does anybody know what face controls the colour or how else I
> can change the colour of the font?
>

Position the cursor on any of those too light characters and type 'C-u 
C-x =' which will open a *Help* buffer containing too the description 
of the used font-face. You should then be able to proceed ...

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   Pete

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Re: Selection pane font/face colour problem

[Peter G.]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

>> My font/face foreground colour is obviously an inappropriate light-grey
>> colour. Does anybody know what face controls the colour or how else I
>> can change the colour of the font?
>>
>
> Position the cursor on any of those too light characters and type 'C-u
> C-x =' which will open a *Help* buffer containing too the description of the
> used font-face. You should then be able to proceed ...

I can't. It's not possible for me to have Emacs process those keypresses
while in the "save buffer as.." selection window.

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Regards, Peter
Topposters and other annoying elements will be killfiled in silence.

Re: Selection pane font/face colour problem

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 01.06.2005 um 00:35 schrieb Peter G.:

> I can't. It's not possible for me to have Emacs process those 
> keypresses
> while in the "save buffer as.." selection window.
>

Now I understand: it does not happen *in* Emacs but with a pop-up 
window!

Here are some possible pointers:

Emacs.dialog*.font:     -*-new century 
schoolbook-bold-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*
Emacs.dialog*.background:       RosyBrown
Emacs.dialog*.foreground:       MediumSpringGreen

Emacs*popup.font:               -*-*-*-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*
Emacs*popup.background:         Pink
Emacs*popup.foreground:         DarkGreen

They have to be put into .Xdefaults. More in Emacs' info node, X 
Resources: C-h i m Emacs RET m X Resources RET.

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   Pete

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Re: Selection pane font/face colour problem

[Peter G.]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 01.06.2005 um 00:35 schrieb Peter G.:
>
>> I can't. It's not possible for me to have Emacs process those keypresses
>> while in the "save buffer as.." selection window.
>>
>
> Now I understand: it does not happen *in* Emacs but with a pop-up
> window!

Exactly. I'm obviously not well aquianted enough with Linux to know
exactly what I'm talking about all the time ;)

Since your post I've been reading about widgets, Motif and
Emacs/Motif/Xdefault, but I still have the problem.

In my .Xdefaults I have (amongst others)

*foreground #[somgreycolour]

If I comment that one out, the font colour revert to the standard black,
but as it also messes with a lot of other font-instances, this is not a
viable solution.

I've tried adding some
Emacs*menu*foreground #[somecolour]
Emacs*dialog*foreground #[somecolour]
Emacs*popup*foreground #[somecolour]

And noticed that upon Emacs upstart there is a short moment where Motif
uses those new designated colours but that it seems to be replaced with
another set of colurs for Emacs*(menu|dialog|popup)* directly after
upstart, making my problem persist. :-/

Any extra pointers?

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Regards, Peter
Topposters and other annoying elements will be killfiled in silence.

Re: Selection pane font/face colour problem

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 03.06.2005 um 14:22 schrieb Peter G.:

> *foreground #[somgreycolour]

Put the tool's name in front of that X resource. Otherwise it's meant 
for all! (BTW: the colon, i.e. ``:´´, belongs to the syntax, you 
shouldn't neglect it.)

> And noticed that upon Emacs upstart there is a short moment where Motif
> uses those new designated colours but that it seems to be replaced with
> another set of colurs for Emacs*(menu|dialog|popup)* directly after
> upstart, making my problem persist. :-/
>
> Any extra pointers?
>

Kick Motif into its guts! And use something better than this dead born 
MS Windows clone.

Motif has always been a pain in some distance from my own guts. The 
good thing with Motif is that without a brain you can't feel it! I 
really can't help you more ... they've created so many undocumented 
things that, usually, come out of the guts ...


There is truss, trace, and such to follow the execution of a 
programme's code. Use any of them to check what happens when GNU Emacs 
starts, i.e. which non-Emacs Lisp files opened and which other 
programmes are started. To do this more efficiently use -Q as sole 
argument for Emacs.

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Greetings

   Pete

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
      -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania.