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From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: New Frame is different
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:32:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ECCD9C5.4000200@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y5v71eyf.fsf@mean.albasani.net>

On 11/23/2011 02:24 AM Memnon Anon wrote:
>>>> Hi. I open a frame using an emacs launcher and the background is
>>>> black and the text is white as I set in my ~/.emacs file.
>>> How did you set it?
>> I set it:
>> (set-foreground-color "white")
>> (set-background-color "black")
>> (set-cursor-color "green" )
> 
> ,----[ C-h f set-foreground-color ]
> | (set-foreground-color COLOR-NAME)
> | [...]
> | Set the foreground color of the selected frame to COLOR-NAME.
> | [...]
> `----
> 
> ,----[ (emacs) Creating Frames ]
> | Here's a similar example for specifying a foreground color:
> | 
> |      (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(foreground-color . "blue"))
> | 
> | By putting such customizations in your init file, you can control the
> | appearance of all the frames Emacs creates, including the initial one.
> `----

But what's the variable name for cursor color?  And for font size?  I 
looked for these in the "Help" and some googling, but no help.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-23 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-22 21:28 New Frame is different Mr. Alexander Etter
2011-11-23  4:33 ` XeCycle
2011-11-23  0:22   ` Mr. Alexander Etter
2011-11-23  7:24     ` Memnon Anon
2011-11-23 11:32       ` ken [this message]
2011-11-23 14:38         ` Memnon Anon
2011-11-23 14:53         ` Peter Dyballa
2011-11-23 15:16         ` Drew Adams
2011-11-25 21:26           ` Alexander

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