how to change background color when running emacs -nw

how to change background color when running emacs -nw

[Lalit Saraswat]

Hi,

I am running emacs in no window mode. but emacs dont take konsole's
background color.
How can i change the background colour to white or whatever used by konsole.

Also how can i access Menu items like file/edit/buffers etc in no window
mode.



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Thanks & Regards,
Lalit Saraswat

Re: how to change background color when running emacs -nw

[Thorsten Jolitz]

Lalit Saraswat <leadinglalit@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am running emacs in no window mode. but emacs dont take konsole's
> background color.
> How can i change the background colour to white or whatever used by konsole.

doesn't something like

,--------------------------------
| $ emacs -nw -fg wheat -bg black
`--------------------------------

work?

> Also how can i access Menu items like file/edit/buffers etc in no window
> mode.

maybe with

,----------------------------------------------------------------------------
| <f10> runs the command menu-bar-open, which is an interactive compiled Lisp
| function in `menu-bar.el'.
|
| It is bound to <f10>.
|
| (menu-bar-open &optional FRAME)
|
| Start key navigation of the menu bar in FRAME.
|
| This function decides which method to use to access the menu
| depending on FRAME's terminal device.  On X displays, it calls
| `x-menu-bar-open'; on Windows, `w32-menu-bar-open' otherwise it
| calls `tmm-menubar'.
|
| If FRAME is nil or not given, use the selected frame.
`----------------------------------------------------------------------------


--
cheers,
Thorsten

Re: how to change background color when running emacs -nw

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 10:35:21 +0200
Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Lalit Saraswat <leadinglalit@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > I am running emacs in no window mode. but emacs dont take konsole's
> > background color.
> > How can i change the background colour to white or whatever used by
> > konsole.
> 
> doesn't something like
> 
> ,--------------------------------
> | $ emacs -nw -fg wheat -bg black
> `--------------------------------
> 
> work?

I believe the OP wants emacs to autodetect the background color of a
parent terminal process, and set that same color as its own background
at startup.

Some people use different background colors for user/root/remote
shells, and I can imagine that they would want this color to
propagate into emacs automatically, whatever that color may be in each
particular instance.

Best, :-)
Marko

Re: how to change background color when running emacs -nw

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Lalit Saraswat <leadinglalit@gmail.com> writes:

> I am running emacs in no window mode. but emacs dont take konsole's
> background color.
> How can i change the background colour to white or whatever used by konsole.

(progn
  (set-background-color "white")
  (set-foreground-color "black")) C-x C-u

works as well in a terminal than in a windowing environment.


> Also how can i access Menu items like file/edit/buffers etc in no window
> mode.

M-`

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