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Hi,

I just installed RedHat 9 and I run what seems Emacs 21.2. I'd like to
change the background color of Emacs into something else that white. I
looked at Google but I can't seem to work it out.

>emacs -bg gainsboro &

still gives me a white background. And how would I specify that
'gainsboro' should be the default background color when emacs is not
started from a shell?

Thanks a lot,

JA