From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Gittens Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting Emacs 24 background color/theme? Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1348026918 26864 80.91.229.3 (19 Sep 2012 03:55:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:55:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 19 05:55:22 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TEBNe-0004m8-TY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2012 05:55:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56134 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TEBNa-0000U0-9Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: by 10.224.52.195 with SMTP id j3mr1509203qag.0.1348026857915; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.52.156.115 with SMTP id wd19mr584307vdb.2.1348026857890; Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!v8no139277qap.0!news-out.google.com!t12ni16965028qak.0!nntp.google.com!v8no139264qap.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=131.215.143.20; posting-account=RggTTgoAAABAoJT5HB4Q1PuRuU_jircn Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.215.143.20 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 03:54:17 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:194487 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86828 Archived-At: What worked for me was to install Prelude (https://github.com/bbatsov/prelu= de via the curl method). For some reason, once that was installed, themeing= started working correctly in both the GUI and console versions, using eith= er 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, >=20 >=20 >=20 > 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 does= n't seem to be working correctly. >=20 >=20 >=20 > If I use the Emacs menu Options->Customize Emacs->Custom Themes, then the= foreground color changes to the theme colors, but the background remains w= hite in the GUI of Emacs and gray in the console version of Emacs.=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > How can I fix this?