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From: Alex Gittens <swiftset@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Setting Emacs 24 background color/theme?
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:54:17 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad7833c3-0c04-4584-b045-da52181ad84a@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c3d2ddfb-7ef1-45ff-a6cb-9e6b106187bb@googlegroups.com>

What worked for me was to install Prelude (https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude via the curl method). For some reason, once that was installed, themeing started working correctly in both the GUI and console versions, using either M-x load-theme or going through the menu.


On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 4:00:44 PM UTC-7, Alex Gittens wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> 
> I'm new to Emacs, and trying to find a nice theme for prolonged typing. I installed Emacs 24 b/c it has built-in color themeing support, but it doesn't seem to be working correctly.
> 
> 
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> If I use the Emacs menu Options->Customize Emacs->Custom Themes, then the foreground color changes to the theme colors, but the background remains white in the GUI of Emacs and gray in the console version of Emacs. 
> 
> 
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> How can I fix this?


      reply	other threads:[~2012-09-19  3:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-18 23:00 Setting Emacs 24 background color/theme? Alex Gittens
2012-09-19  3:54 ` Alex Gittens [this message]

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