From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: different background colours in different emacs windows. Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:02:00 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4198B6F1-3EE4-45AF-BDC1-3CCD106A7692@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301133765 21046 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2011 10:02:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:02:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Filippo A. Salustri Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 26 11:02:40 2011 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 1Q3QKO-0007Oj-8n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:02:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54269 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3QKN-0000pd-7t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 06:02:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38925 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3QK1-0000pM-9i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 06:02:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3QK0-0001f4-CK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 06:02:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:54998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q3QK0-0001eC-61 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 06:02:16 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de ( [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4B418A78025; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:02:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [91.35.193.219] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #2) id 1Q3QJm-0002Ik-00; Sat, 26 Mar 2011 11:02:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19LENHgyOTVcHZPFdHFsWSMpQVcrNPP1FGGfdRE bb5NE0yVMPcLTnSeC3ziW/tyItXTQwdUyk+bySG0kgJ0K4kTeI POZQfShsPtm1JRoR8oEA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 217.72.192.234 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:80442 Archived-At: Am 26.03.2011 um 00:52 schrieb Filippo A. Salustri: > Yup. I've diddled the mode-line already. However, I have a big > screen, and > I cover most of it with emacs. I find that the mode-line is > relatively > small in that case, and even if I set it to a rather bright colour, > I often > can't tell which window is active. > I can understand the mode-line being enough for an 80x24-ish > display, but I > run emacs at 160x60. Play a bit with this customisation: '(mode-line ((t (:background "magenta" :foreground "black" :height 1.5 :family "bauhaus 93")))) '(mode-line-inactive ((t (:inherit mode-line :background "PaleTurquoise1" :foreground "grey20" :box (:line-width -1 :color "grey75") :height 0.875 :weight light :family "times unicode")))) In GNU Emacs 24.0.50 I've seen a variable mode-line-in-non-selected- windows. It gives you easy access to customising the `mode-line' and `mode-line-inactive' faces. My example is just something to play with. And see the effect. -- Greetings Pete What is this talk of 'release?' Klingons do not make software 'releases.' Our software 'escapes,' leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.