From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs running as root with different colors than the standard one. Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 10:43:31 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87txx95s98.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <155DEC68569B714B86C2C7075F5EDA9812CC3818@DAKIYA1.pegasus.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342341914 18518 80.91.229.3 (15 Jul 2012 08:45:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:45:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 15 10:45:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SqKS1-0000ab-MN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2012 10:45:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37346 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SqKS1-0000B7-32 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2012 04:45:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 13rSrBuNJTlM3BvOPNWxbA+uyyV1zAfK2erhU80z2ZQHKfym3+BZ0EZoMZ4yX1UzyX Cancel-Lock: sha1:MzlhZWQwYzVkOGU0ZDA5MjE5NDU2M2ZhZTY3Yjg3MmU2MmQwMzFlMw== sha1:p+wW5wNKO/vo3l94Fqc8Fl4I4YA= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193474 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85858 Archived-At: Alexandre Schenberg writes: >>> From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org >>> [mailto:help-gnu-emacs-bounces+dougl=shubertticketing.com@gnu.org] On >>> Behalf Of Alexandre Schenberg >>> Sent: Thursday, 2012 July 12 20:19 >>> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org >>> Subject: Emacs running as root with different colors than the standard >>> one. >>> >>> As the title says, when I executes emacs as root, it uses colors >>> different when compared with it running with the privileges of a >>> regular user. >>> So I would like to know where these colors settings might be stored, >>> so that I can copy then to use as a regular user. >>> P.S: There isn't a .emacs file under root Then why don't you create it? >>> P.S2: Only when running emacs directly as root it uses the mentioned >>> colors, when I use "su" it uses the standard colors. Put that: (when (= (user-uid) 0) (set-background-color "red") (set-foreground-color "black")) both in your ~/.emacs and in root's. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.