Re: different background colours in different emacs windows.

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>]

Am 26.03.2011 um 00:52 schrieb Filippo A. Salustri:

> Yup. I've diddled the mode-line already.  However, I have a big  
> screen, and
> I cover most of it with emacs.  I find that the mode-line is  
> relatively
> small in that case, and even if I set it to  a rather bright colour,  
> I often
> can't tell which window is active.
> I can understand the mode-line being enough for an 80x24-ish  
> display, but I
> run emacs at 160x60.


Play a bit with this customisation:

  '(mode-line ((t (:background "magenta" :foreground "black" :height  
1.5 :family "bauhaus 93"))))
  '(mode-line-inactive ((t (:inherit mode-line :background  
"PaleTurquoise1" :foreground "grey20" :box (:line-width -1 :color  
"grey75") :height 0.875 :weight light :family "times unicode"))))

In GNU Emacs 24.0.50 I've seen a variable mode-line-in-non-selected- 
windows. It gives you easy access to customising the `mode-line' and  
`mode-line-inactive' faces. My example is just something to play with.  
And see the effect.

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