Re: Cannot run emacsclient in GUI

[Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>]

Hi Eli:

I am interested in this question.

What's the right way to add a hook like this for emacsclient only?

I mean; does the emacsclient defines a variable to condition
window-setup-hooks? Something like (if emacsclient ...)? or are there
any emacsclient-hook?

The elisp manual about emacsclient specifics is not very explicit IMO.

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 05:45:33PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Ram�n Lorenzo Panad�s-Barrueta
>>  <rpana92@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 10:41:31 +0100
>>
>> (defun on-after-init ()
>>   "Make transparent background only for terminal."
>>   (if (display-graphic-p)
>>       (progn (message "XWINDOW")
>>          (set-face-background 'default "#292b2e"))
>>     (progn (message "TERMINAL")
>>        (set-face-background 'default "unspecified-bg"))))
>>
>> (add-hook 'window-setup-hook 'on-after-init)
>>
>> The above happens to work perfectly for emacs, but not for emacsclient,
>> which yield the following error:
>>
>> $ emacsclient -c
>> Waiting for Emacs...
>> *ERROR*: Undefined color: "unspecified-bg"
>>
>> On the other hand emacsclient -nw -c, works as expected. Could anyone
>> please give me some hints on how to solve this issue?
>
>unspecified-bg is meaningless for GUI frames, that's why you get the
>error.  Try this instead:
>
>   (face-spec-reset-face 'default)
>