From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ken Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: New Frame is different Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:32:21 -0500 Message-ID: <4ECCD9C5.4000200@mousecar.com> References: <4ECC140B.5080402@gmail.com> <87ty5vjw4g.fsf@gmail.com> <4ECC3CC6.5080606@gmail.com> <87y5v71eyf.fsf@mean.albasani.net> Reply-To: gebser@mousecar.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1322047967 24859 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2011 11:32:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:32:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 23 12:32:42 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RTB4E-000052-F6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:32:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43989 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTB4D-0000Wn-S9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:32:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39166) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTB45-0000W5-Go for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:32:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTB3z-0006fY-Ki for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:32:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.195]:58628) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RTB3z-0006fL-GZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:32:27 -0500 Original-Received: from dellap.mousecar.net (dsl093-011-016.cle1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.11.16]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0LrNcy-1Qhhga0GJI-012vK3; Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:32:25 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20110928) In-Reply-To: <87y5v71eyf.fsf@mean.albasani.net> X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:TW0GvtN+7tRjRPhwsoOJSXxrM22T9Vez4QyomtvnczD yBiu1h9ARYWc5nEDqbyyktRgxQUS35A0LA6GI8GDkBVbBXhdg+ 8Xv/XAfCD5GWufs1sZ/V5/gisNDctDgwuVFM8Z/XyqhlkOUHWR PA89L4cGgntEneCU4yao6lf2O1EBP+a0iWnS8Q6MaVSbtetLwG i5V2onnvdHJjGaEjHoT2THPr5z3RY+BhtRLMEvSxUw2ei+thX3 spGlfnIyVAQYiXAeoy7JNdd70ppa27aaP8QBscaQ5kztWEEDXg SbJ6zniEULWw6hUcIFyzPqoRtwGIKYnvlGqMqao7Ihl7poGtIr RndCFjpAH3+5b6/tblvFnEYZIs8i5TzSwiExTOyhZ X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.208.4.195 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:83015 Archived-At: 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.