Re: properly setting up ~/.emacs.d for daemon usage

["Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>]

Filipe Silva <filipe.silva@gmail.com> writes:

> ​Óscar, sure. Here are some specifics:
>
> 1) The gui theme I use, zerodark (By Nicolas Petton, who is redesign
> elpa.gnu.org), queries display-graphic-p everytime it goes about defining a
> palete element:
>
> https://github.com/NicolasPetton/zerodark-theme/blob/master/zerodark-theme.el#L158-L162

That package assumes that a session will be either graphical or textual.
Apart from --daemon, you can activate server mode on any Emacs session,
thus making possible to create frames of either type.

From my POV packages like this one are broken. Emacs allows to define
faces providing conditional values: this for ttys and that for X, etc. I
don't know why those themes go the (display-graphic-p) route.

You could advise display-graphic-p to return a value depending on how do
you intend to use that daemon. Try looking into command-line-args for
"--daemon=XXX" or, if that argument was already consumed, put some other
mark on the command line such as --eval="(quote graphical)".