From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info bar isn't showing anything Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 20:49:34 +0200 Message-ID: <87r6c0n4u9.fsf@escher.local.home> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211050224 18735 80.91.229.12 (17 May 2008 18:50:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 18:50:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 17 20:51:02 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JxRUi-000110-VX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 20:51:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39329 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JxRTz-0002SZ-CF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 14:50:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JxRTb-0002Om-Ur for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 14:49:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JxRTW-0002BZ-7p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 14:49:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53678 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JxRTV-0002Ax-Rd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 14:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:53247 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JxRTV-0002Cv-7s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 14:49:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JxRTR-000848-R6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 17 May 2008 18:49:41 +0000 Original-Received: from i5387de46.versanet.de ([83.135.222.70]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 18:49:41 +0000 Original-Received: from Stephen.Berman by i5387de46.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 17 May 2008 18:49:41 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i5387de46.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54097 Archived-At: On Thu, 15 May 2008 21:22:25 -0700 "Rich E" wrote: > I just noticed that it is only the currently active buffer; if I have more > than one buffer open, the info bar displays normally on the buffers not > active. what is going on... > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Rich E wrote: > > Hi, > > I don't know what happened, but after installing a new version of Ubuntu > (and keeping the same home directory, including .emacs) > , the bar that normal shows what file I have open an what line I'm on, > etc, is solid grey. > > Does anyone know how to change the color settings? I think the text must > be the same as the color of the bar or something. What is this thing > called, anyway? Might make it easier for me to search for commands if I > knew its name. > > cheers, > Rich Type `M-x (i.e. Alt-X) customize-face', then return, then at the prompt type `mode-line'. For the non-selected buffers type `M-x customize-face', then return, then `mode-line-inactive' the prompt. Steve Berman