From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Face differences between emacs-nox & windows-nt Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:36:05 +0200 Message-ID: <83aamooo96.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k4ltivfv.fsf@mail.tbulka.de> <83wrptrtjk.fsf@garydjones.name> <83hbgxnjzh.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6a97xus.fsf@garydjones.name> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1286541516 32509 80.91.229.12 (8 Oct 2010 12:38:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:38:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 08 14:38:35 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P4CDb-00009u-Bn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:38:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47465 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P4CDa-0008NK-VS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:38:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=37603 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P4CBG-0007GM-8Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:36:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P4CBE-0003EV-E8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:36:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:33730) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P4CBE-0003Dx-7O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:36:08 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L9Z00L0014XAS00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:36:05 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.148.82]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L9Z00L8Y1O47090@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:36:05 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <83y6a97xus.fsf@garydjones.name> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75096 Archived-At: > From: "Gary" > Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:00:43 +0200 > > 1. The background colour of the console and "graphics" windows are very > different - black vs. white (note: I'm not referring to the effect of > M-x set-background-color here, but rather the bg colour of the > window/console "behind" emacs). I happen to prefer a black bg for > working with text, but other windows lighter in colour (i.e. I would > also like my graphical emacs to have a black bg). Does it help to add the following two lines to your ~/.emacs for the GUI session? (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(background-color . "black")) (add-to-list 'initial-frame-alist '(background-color . "black")) > Note: calling set-background-color in the console version, where I did > all my customisation, can have the pretty unpleasant effect of changing > foreground text colours as well (I guess there is some built-in contrast > calculation going on somewhere). Yes, Emacs tries not to show you a combination of colors that would be illegible. > Any thoughts on that? Not sure what you are asking here.