From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Can't load any color themes in emacs 25 Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 11:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20160925192146.GD3442@mail.akwebsoft.com> <20160926180747.GE3442@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1474914143 13241 195.159.176.226 (26 Sep 2016 18:22:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:22:23 +0000 (UTC) To: Tim Johnson , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 26 20:22:12 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1boaXY-0001Ye-Jt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:22:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46078 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boaXX-0004HV-2y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:22:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60431) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boaX2-0004Ev-H4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:21:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boaWx-0007hE-GI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:21:35 -0400 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:51245) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1boaWx-0007gx-7K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:21:31 -0400 Original-Received: from userv0022.oracle.com (userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id u8QILOAR022594 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:21:25 GMT Original-Received: from aserv0121.oracle.com (aserv0121.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by userv0022.oracle.com (8.14.4/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u8QILNxa009945 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:21:24 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0008.oracle.com (abhmp0008.oracle.com [141.146.116.14]) by aserv0121.oracle.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id u8QILLYm002637; Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:21:22 GMT In-Reply-To: <20160926180747.GE3442@mail.akwebsoft.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.9 (901082) [OL 12.0.6753.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: userv0022.oracle.com [156.151.31.74] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111396 Archived-At: > 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