From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Don Kauffman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Changing the Background and foreground colors in Emacs Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:27:11 -0500 Message-ID: <1159046831.9027.41.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159046857 31153 80.91.229.2 (23 Sep 2006 21:27:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:27:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 23 23:27:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GRF22-0004x7-Rj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 23:27:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GRF22-0005pc-Co for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:27:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GRF1r-0005oe-Od for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:27:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GRF1q-0005nY-1a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:27:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GRF1p-0005nV-SV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:27:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [68.230.240.37] (helo=eastrmmtao02.cox.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GRF5s-0003o4-FZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:31:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060923212713.ZGYW10599.eastrmmtao02.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:27:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([24.252.51.115]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id RxSs1V00X2V85Bs0000000 Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:26:53 -0400 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37575 Archived-At: I finally had an opportunity to work with this problem and solved it by removing emacs completely then reinstalling it. I didn't have time to figure out what the setting was that was causing my problem even though that would have been my preferred approach. A little draconian to be sure but, hey, it worked! Thanks to all for their suggestions. Don K. On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 13:08 -0700, Drew Adams wrote: > > I've been very frustrated trying to locate information on changing the > > background color in Emacs. Currently it is set to White text > on a Black > > background. I'd much prefer the reverse -- Black text on white > > background. I've looked through the manuals and there doesn't > seem to be > > anything listed about changing that. I've studied the > settings and there > > doesn't seem to be anything obvious there either. > > > > I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper) although this happened with 5.10 > > (Breezy). I was not able to get this resolved there either. > > It's not obvious, but it's there. Emacs uses the term "faces" for > fonts, font colors and such. > > Yes and no. > > Not just faces, for what the question was: frames too have foreground and > background colors. Depending on the version of Emacs, these frame parameters > might also be accessible via the `default' face. > > In Emacs versions that don't have a face named `default', if you want to > change the default appearance of all frames, then change the values of the > frame parameters `foreground-color' and `background-color' in > `default-frame-alist'. Command `list-faces-display' will tell you if a > `default' face is defined. > > > > _______________________________________________ > help-gnu-emacs mailing list > help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs