Change background color?

Change background color?

[Jonas Andersson]

Hi,

I just installed RedHat 9 and I run what seems Emacs 21.2. I'd like to
change the background color of Emacs into something else that white. I
looked at Google but I can't seem to work it out.

>emacs -bg gainsboro &

still gives me a white background. And how would I specify that
'gainsboro' should be the default background color when emacs is not
started from a shell?

Thanks a lot,

JA

Re: Change background color?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Jonas Andersson wrote:

> I just installed RedHat 9 and I run what seems Emacs 21.2. I'd like to
> change the background color of Emacs into something else that white. I
> looked at Google but I can't seem to work it out.
> 
>	emacs -bg gainsboro &
> 
> still gives me a white background.


Try specifying the -q and --no-site-file options before -bg COLOR.

> And how would I specify that
> 'gainsboro' should be the default background color when emacs is not
> started from a shell?

Put this in your ~/.Xdefaults file:

Emacs*Background: gainsboro

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: Change background color?

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

>>>>> "KR" == Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:

>> I just installed RedHat 9 and I run what seems Emacs 21.2. I'd like
>> to change the background color of Emacs into something else that
>> white. I looked at Google but I can't seem to work it out.
>> 
>> emacs -bg gainsboro &
>> 
>> still gives me a white background.


KR> Try specifying the -q and --no-site-file options before -bg COLOR.


There are Elisp specific solutions for the problem.

Putting something like this in the .emacs file 

(setq default-frame-alist '((cursor-color . "gold")
  			    (background-color . "black")
  			    (foreground-color . "#feffD9")
  			    (height . 40)
  			    (width . 80)
  			    ))

sets  the default  cursor color,  background color,  foreground color,
height and width of any other frame you create.

for the current frame

(set-background-color "gold")
(set-cursor-color "black")
(set-foreground-color "#feffD9")

do the job for colors :)

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Re: Change background color?

[nospam55]

For more general color settings,  toy with


   M-x list-colors-display RET
  ; for a display of all the color names and how they look like 

, choose your favorite color names and see with 

        M-x list-faces-display

where to put them . It will need struggling but the health of your eyes 
is more important ;-)

           nospam55 .it