Background color in emacs

Background color in emacs

[Stefan Bienert]

Hello,

I'm trying to get emacs in X to the same look as in the console. I mean with a black background. But if I use set-background-color, the black font in emacs does not turn into white?
Any help? 

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Re: Background color in emacs

[Bastien]

Stefan Bienert <stefanbienert@web.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get emacs in X to the same look as in the console. I
> mean with a black background. But if I use set-background-color, the
> black font in emacs does not turn into white?  Any help?

Another way to it is to use color-theme and color-theme-dark-laptop.

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?ColorTheme

(require 'color-theme nil t)
(color-theme-dark-laptop)

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Re: Background color in emacs

[Mathias Dahl]

Stefan Bienert <stefanbienert@web.de> writes:


> I'm trying to get emacs in X to the same look as in the console. I
> mean with a black background. But if I use set-background-color, the
> black font in emacs does not turn into white?

You also need to set the foreground color, for example:

 M-x set-foreground-color RET green RET

There is something called `color-theme' that you might want to check
out. It helps you do all that, and more:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?ColorTheme

Re: Background color in emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 16.01.2006 um 13:54 schrieb Stefan Bienert:

> I mean with a black background. But if I use set-background-color,  
> the black font in emacs does not turn into white?

You could try something this:

         (setq initial-frame-alist '(
                 (border-color     . "#4e3832")
                 (mouse-color      . "midnightblue")
                 (foreground-color . "pink")
                 (background-color . "black")
                 (font . "-*-*-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-fontset- 
hiraginomin")
                 (top . 10) (left . 650) (width . 89) (height . 60)))
         (setq default-frame-alist '(
                 (background-color . "ghost white")
                 (foreground-color . "grey10")
                 (vertical-scroll-bars . left)
                 (font . "-*-*-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-fontset- 
hiraginokaku")
                 (cursor-color . "purple")
                 (cursor-type . box)


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Re: Background color in emacs

[Stefan Bienert]

Hello,

now I've downloaded color-theme 6.5.5 and put the following into my .emacs:

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp")
    (require 'color-theme)

Now I get the following error on startup:

An error has occurred while loading `/home/sbienert/.emacs':

Wrong type argument: keymapp, nil

To ensure normal operation, you should investigate the cause
of the error in your initialization file and remove it.  Start
Emacs with the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error
backtrace
Loading mwheel...done
setq: Symbol's function definition is void: color-theme-filter

What now? Is color-theme really worth fighting?

greetings,

Stefan

> 
> Another way to it is to use color-theme and color-theme-dark-laptop.
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?ColorTheme
> 
> (require 'color-theme nil t)
> (color-theme-dark-laptop)
> 
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Re: Background color in emacs

[Chris McMahan]

This is taken from 
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ColorThemeQuestions
linked in from http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?ColorTheme

------------------------------
Problems with GnuEmacs 21.4.1

Everything works fine, if I start with load-library color-theme in
the input line. If I try to load from .emacs file I get an error:

Wrong type argument: keymapp, nil

[…]

setq: Symbol's function definition is void: color-theme-filter

Same for me!!! Sob… Emilio Luque

The answer is simple, I made a change in the code (pretty small
change btw) to make color-theme working with emacs-devel. To switch
back this change, just change all occurences of easy-add-menu to
have "tools" instead of "Tools". That should do the trick. I have
opened a bug report on Gna!
(https://gna.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=5059).
------------------------------

- Chris

Stefan Bienert <stefanbienert@web.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> now I've downloaded color-theme 6.5.5 and put the following into my .emacs:
>
> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp")
>     (require 'color-theme)
>
> Now I get the following error on startup:
>
> An error has occurred while loading `/home/sbienert/.emacs':
>
> Wrong type argument: keymapp, nil
>
> To ensure normal operation, you should investigate the cause
> of the error in your initialization file and remove it.  Start
> Emacs with the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error
> backtrace
> Loading mwheel...done
> setq: Symbol's function definition is void: color-theme-filter
>
> What now? Is color-theme really worth fighting?
>
> greetings,
>
> Stefan
>
>> 
>> Another way to it is to use color-theme and color-theme-dark-laptop.
>> 
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki?ColorTheme
>> 
>> (require 'color-theme nil t)
>> (color-theme-dark-laptop)
>> 
>> -- 
>> Bastien
>> _______________________________________________
>> help-gnu-emacs mailing list
>> help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
>
> -- 
> mit freundlichen Gruessen
>
> Stefan Bienert
>
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>
>                      SO I INSTALLED LINUX.
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Re: Background color in emacs

[Edward O'Connor]

> now I've downloaded color-theme 6.5.5 and put the following into my
> .emacs:
>
> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/elisp")
> (require 'color-theme)
>
> Now I get the following error on startup:
>
> An error has occurred while loading `/home/sbienert/.emacs':
>
> Wrong type argument: keymapp, nil

Comment out these four lines (they're around line 588 in my copy of
color-theme.el):

(require 'easymenu)
(easy-menu-add-item nil '("Tools") "--")
(easy-menu-add-item  nil '("Tools")
  ["Color Themes" color-theme-select t])


Ted

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Re: Background color in emacs

[Stefan Bienert]

Thanks a lot!

it is sufficient to just change ¨Tools¨ into ¨tools¨ in these lines!

> > now I've downloaded color-theme 6.5.5 and put the following into my
> > .emacs:

> Comment out these four lines (they're around line 588 in my copy of
> color-theme.el):
> 
> (require 'easymenu)
> (easy-menu-add-item nil '("Tools") "--")
> (easy-menu-add-item  nil '("Tools")
>   ["Color Themes" color-theme-select t])
> 



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Stefan Bienert

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