Customization question

Customization question

[Klaus Jantzen]

Hi,

which of the thousands of customization screws I have to turn in order 
to change the background color of the submenus?

I am using Emacs 24 und Debian Wheezy.

Thank you for a hint.
-- 

K.D.J

Re: Customization question

[Emanuel Berg]

Klaus Jantzen wrote:

> which of the thousands of customization
> screws I have to turn in order to change the
> background color of the submenus?

Good question - you can do

    M-x describe-face TAB

then go to the *Completions* buffer and make
a search.

There is a face called `menu', you can always
try setting the background color of that and
see what happens...

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Re: Customization question

[Yuri Khan]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Klaus Jantzen <k.d.jantzen@mailbox.org> wrote:

> which of the thousands of customization screws I have to turn in order to
> change the background color of the submenus?
>
> I am using Emacs 24 und Debian Wheezy.

If you are using the GTK+ build (which is what is distributed in the
default ‘emacs24’ Debian package), then the screws are in your GTK+
theme. If your build uses GTK+3 and your GTK+3 theme has dark and
light subtheme support, it may be a matter of choosing the right
subtheme. Try:

    $ GTK_THEME=Adwaita emacs -Q

and:

    $ GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark emacs -Q


On the other hand, if you are using Emacs in terminal (using the
‘emacs24-nox’ package or the -nw switch) or the Lucid toolkit build
(‘emacs24-lucid’ package), then M-x customize-face RET menu RET should
help you.

Re: Customization question

[Emanuel Berg]

Yuri Khan wrote:

> On the other hand, if you are using Emacs in
> terminal (using the ‘emacs24-nox’ package or
> the -nw switch) or the Lucid toolkit build
> (‘emacs24-lucid’ package), then M-x
> customize-face RET menu RET should help you.

Good answer, probably it will help the OP -
beware, this is an OT note - but since
I returned to this list/group this terminal vs.
GUI Emacs has been brought up I think a dozen
times by me and others!

Perhaps we should start thinking in other lines
as well before we end up parodies of each
other :)

Because there *are* others aspects to
Emacs, right?

Eheh?

-- 
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http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573

Re: Customization question

[Emanuel Berg]

Emanuel Berg wrote:

> Good answer, probably it will help the OP -
> beware, this is an OT note - but since
> I returned to this list/group this terminal
> vs. GUI Emacs has been brought up I think
> a dozen times by me and others!
>
> Perhaps we should start thinking in other
> lines as well before we end up parodies of
> each other :)
>
> Because there *are* others aspects to
> Emacs, right?
>
> Eheh?

Seriously, in another thread I mentioned the
small tty-keys tutorial I wrote. It is only
182 lines (or 4839 chars) long but its got
a lot of facts packed in. Perhaps we could put
together a similar text file, if there isn't
one already, which broadly explains the
principles behind the two versions and why the
differ, as well as some touchdowns when it
actually differs to the users and where
configuration has to be done accordingly?

-- 
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573

Re: Customization question

[Krishnakant]

On Monday 26 June 2017 05:06 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Emanuel Berg wrote:
>
>> Good answer, probably it will help the OP -
>> beware, this is an OT note - but since
>> I returned to this list/group this terminal
>> vs. GUI Emacs has been brought up I think
>> a dozen times by me and others!
>>
>> Perhaps we should start thinking in other
>> lines as well before we end up parodies of
>> each other :)
>>
>> Because there *are* others aspects to
>> Emacs, right?
>>
>> Eheh?
> Seriously, in another thread I mentioned the
> small tty-keys tutorial I wrote. It is only
> 182 lines (or 4839 chars) long but its got
> a lot of facts packed in. Perhaps we could put
> together a similar text file, if there isn't
> one already, which broadly explains the
> principles behind the two versions and why the
> differ, as well as some touchdowns when it
> actually differs to the users and where
> configuration has to be done accordingly?

> I have been watching this thread and seriously the last part above is some thing which tempted me to finally respond.
This is a brillient idea such a document aught to be made.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

Re: Customization question

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 17:51:16 +0700
> Cc: emacs-list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> On the other hand, if you are using Emacs in terminal (using the
> ‘emacs24-nox’ package or the -nw switch) or the Lucid toolkit build
> (‘emacs24-lucid’ package), then M-x customize-face RET menu RET should
> help you.

I'd instead suggest

  M-x customize-face RET tty-menu TAB

to see the names of faces used for menus on TTY frames.  The 'menu'
face is AFAIK used only for the menu bar itself.