From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexandre Schenberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs running as root with different colors than the standard one. Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 06:11:11 -0300 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1342602692 1959 80.91.229.3 (18 Jul 2012 09:11:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 09:11:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, gnu.emacs.help@googlegroups.com To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 18 11:11:32 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 1SrQI3-0003Re-St for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:11:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58313 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SrQI2-0002M2-Pd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:11:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55362) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SrQHy-0002Lv-Ir for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SrQHp-0001tk-5J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:34515) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SrQHp-0001tg-1L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 05:11:13 -0400 Original-Received: by yhr47 with SMTP id 47so1592094yhr.0 for ; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:11:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=v/4xmg1yEguq6UGJfO9MqoF4XXXcZpyuo0d43VCsYHQ=; b=XPnflH4diSvGN2Iy4EY+CYQmAhjuOhF2m87BxldHUZR0nSlXWmTpZZi8okJ8otCN0w kRspkGWYw2u0mLV1WX9PGaU7YWHcSEp7pbRXKbL5daQfB8/E5GxTMNRgKU2yhjtNKwOi u6w4Nyg4IJZOUAy70IFBHqhSca4oo5rbwyAeJOx7OsCNIOHHVUpWcnJf3b5OUAyo1d0i HuuOn6dEvIAoDngM25Es1vH2mra20RtmLmqRX3ki8Xy0IaHzIqgej7vDtVy7wAbSmtjQ c0PmWBrvWnQlJIefqcqiSPOeL903G4Jxbb5JAEwvpi8lY2lXp+Bp9pjGMBg2fHM4vEWY 3rXQ== Original-Received: by 10.66.83.33 with SMTP id n1mr832938pay.7.1342602671633; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:11:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.66.217.225 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Jul 2012 02:11:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.213.41 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:85912 Archived-At: Bingo, that's it. Actually, not precisely, since in my case there isn't a .Xdefaults. However I saw a file that by it's name made me think that could be it. And it was the .Xresources file. P.S: Create the .emacs file in root wouldn't solve my problem since what I want was just find the colors used by root to use as regular use. Thanks to all for the effort. 2012/7/15, Jason Rumney : > Redhat based distributions used to (I haven't used one for a number of > years, so don't know if it is still the case) include a .Xdefaults in root's > home directory that set the background and foreground colors for various > applications to make it obvious that you were using the application as > root. > > Perhaps that is the case here? > >