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From: wael-zwaiter@gmx.com
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>,
	"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: RE: [External] :  Cannot see what is written on modeline
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 09:55:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-130c34c2-be04-4a7b-bf56-4bc9953a2a99-1621324540375@3c-app-mailcom-bs13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SA2PR10MB44743086F5930E4FBAC2E307F32C9@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>

Could emacs internally figure out the colour settings and determine if the contrast
between the foreground and background is high enough.  And if not high enough to change
the foreground and background colour.  Particularly when user supplies the -q option
whilst debugging. 

Wael

> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 4:28 PM
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> To: "wael-zwaiter@gmx.com" <wael-zwaiter@gmx.com>, "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Subject: RE: [External] : Re: Cannot see what is written on modeline
>
> > > -q --no-x-resources  Problem goes away
> 
> So it sounds like it's your X Resources.
> 
> But here's another thought, since you said
> that it happens only (or more strongly?) when
> the window with the mode-line is selected:
> 
> `M-x customize-face mode-line'
> 
> For the mode-line when the window is _not_
> selected:
> 
> `M-x customize-face mode-line-inactive'
>



  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-18  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-17 18:16 Cannot see what is written on modeline wael-zwaiter
2021-05-17 22:47 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-17 23:02   ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-22  4:29     ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-18  7:55   ` tomas
2021-05-18  8:02     ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 11:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 12:12         ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 12:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 13:01             ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 13:17               ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-18 13:09             ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-18 15:19               ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 14:03           ` Drew Adams
2021-05-18 14:33             ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18 14:45               ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-18 15:11                 ` tomas
2021-05-18 15:45                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-17 23:38 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-17 23:41   ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-17 23:44     ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-17 23:49       ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18  0:12         ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-05-18  0:25           ` wael-zwaiter
2021-05-18  4:28             ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-05-18  7:55               ` wael-zwaiter [this message]
2021-05-18 13:09                 ` [External] : " Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-18 15:24                   ` Christopher Dimech
2021-05-19  7:53                     ` Robert Thorpe
2021-05-19  8:50                       ` michael-franzese
2021-05-18 13:13                 ` Óscar Fuentes

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