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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Can't load any color themes in emacs 25
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:21:20 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b86030ad-44b8-4356-97ca-cf94028fc845@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160926180747.GE3442@mail.akwebsoft.com>

> I've installed GNU Emacs 25.1.1 on ubuntu 14.04.
> The previous version is 24.3.1
>
> The default color scheme is great, but running load-theme for any
> installed theme does not give me the color scheme that I expect.
> *Messages* shows nothing of concern on startup. The background
> remains light.
>
> I would guess that some setting has a value that is forcing the
> background to a something close to white, (regardless of theme
> selection) but don't know where to look for it.

FYI (but this does not speak to your difficulty).

`load-theme' is not about color themes.  It is about custom themes.
(It is too bad that Emacs borrowed the feature idea, changed it
to something different, and gave it a too-similar name.)

See this page, about color themes and custom themes:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ColorThemes



  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-26 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-25 19:21 Can't load any color themes in emacs 25 Tim Johnson
2016-09-26 18:07 ` Tim Johnson
2016-09-26 18:21   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-09-26 18:54     ` Tim Johnson

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