From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Linux newbe Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 14:29:54 +0200 Message-ID: <9CEBE114-D772-4385-89AC-86BC4FFF6321@Web.DE> References: <3d0de8f40707071947t47ecc9c6gcb22fc521848876a@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183897835 13430 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2007 12:30:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 12:30:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Charles Goodrich Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 08 14:30:33 2007 connect(): Connection refused 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 1I7VuD-0002ur-LS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:30:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7VuD-00022y-6C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:30:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7Vtv-00022Y-9h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:30:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I7Vtt-000224-Ey for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I7Vtt-000221-9w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I7Vts-0000VG-Qc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp07.web.de (fmsmtp07.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.215]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB0F8BC7FDB; Sun, 8 Jul 2007 14:30:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [62.134.228.96] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp07.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.108 #197) id 1I7Vtq-0003Uz-00; Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:30:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3d0de8f40707071947t47ecc9c6gcb22fc521848876a@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/L8+K4k221vWlLDmohAqetwJYfG/a56R8v8Yq4 7r8+pHb64gOuYelmg+4zT/c1ibS8VhdiT/RTq/qfty1w9eVRfJ DgAOtl7ORepwHLCB7c5w== X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:45536 Archived-At: Am 08.07.2007 um 04:47 schrieb Charles Goodrich: > I am used to black letters on a white background, On Linux you can use X Resources (look into the GNU Emacs manual, i.e. C-h i m Emacs and then search for the "Command Line Options and Arguments" node), which are organised in files like ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources (depends on the actual code in ~/.xinit or similiar files (~/.xstart?) which set up the X11 environment). ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources can #include other files with set X application defaults. A lot "templates" exist in directories like /usr/X11R6/lib/ X11/app-defaults or /usr/X11R7/share/X11/app-defaults. In the free-form or Lisp section of ~/.emacs you can use for example: (setq initial-frame-alist '( (mouse-color . "midnightblue") (foreground-color . "grey20") (background-color . "alice blue") (internal-border-width . 2) (line-spacing . 1) (active-alpha . 0.875) (inactive-alpha . 0.75) (font . "-*-*-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-fontset- hiraginomin") (top . 25) (left . 650) (width . 91) (height . 50))) (setq default-frame-alist '( (border-color . "#4e3831") (foreground-color . "grey10") (background-color . "ghost white") (vertical-scroll-bars . left) (cursor-color . "purple") (cursor-type . box) (active-alpha . 0.75) (inactive-alpha . 0.875) (font . "-*-*-medium-r-normal--9-*-*-*-*-*-fontset- hiraginokaku") (top . 50) (left . 150) (width . 89) (height . 56))) -- Greetings Pete Think of XML as Lisp for COBOL programmers. -- Tony-A (some guy on /.)