From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Change background color?
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 17:20:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40218C43.6070206@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d2f49f4e.0402041414.3bb058a@posting.google.com
Jonas Andersson wrote:
> I just installed RedHat 9 and I run what seems Emacs 21.2. I'd like to
> change the background color of Emacs into something else that white. I
> looked at Google but I can't seem to work it out.
>
> emacs -bg gainsboro &
>
> still gives me a white background.
Try specifying the -q and --no-site-file options before -bg COLOR.
> And how would I specify that
> 'gainsboro' should be the default background color when emacs is not
> started from a shell?
Put this in your ~/.Xdefaults file:
Emacs*Background: gainsboro
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-05 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-04 22:14 Change background color? Jonas Andersson
2004-02-05 0:20 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2004-02-05 9:19 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2004-02-09 17:55 ` nospam55
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