From: Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Face differences between emacs-nox & windows-nt
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:37:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <i9m9o5$7eg$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83aamooo96.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: "Gary"
>> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:00:43 +0200
>>
>> 1. The background colour of the console and "graphics" windows are
> very
>> different - black vs. white (note: I'm not referring to the effect of
>> M-x set-background-color here, but rather the bg colour of the
>> window/console "behind" emacs). I happen to prefer a black bg for
>> working with text, but other windows lighter in colour (i.e. I would
>> also like my graphical emacs to have a black bg).
>
> Does it help to add the following two lines to your ~/.emacs for the
> GUI session?
>
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(background-color . "black"))
> (add-to-list 'initial-frame-alist '(background-color . "black"))
Not really. The effects is the same as, or very similar to,
`set-background-color black` - effectively I can't see very much as a
result. What I seem to effectively get is black text on a black
background.
>> I guess there is some built-in contrast calculation going on
> Yes, Emacs tries not to show you a combination of colors that would be
> illegible.
It doesn't seem to work very well :(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-20 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-07 9:01 Face differences between emacs-nox & windows-nt Gary
2010-10-07 13:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-07 14:23 ` Gary
2010-10-07 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-07 20:45 ` Thomas Bulka
2010-10-08 8:13 ` Gary
2010-10-08 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-08 11:00 ` Gary
2010-10-08 12:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-10-20 8:37 ` Gary [this message]
2010-10-20 8:59 ` Gary
[not found] ` <mailman.0.1287565213.18510.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-20 16:45 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.3.1286535662.6837.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-10-08 22:18 ` Tim X
2010-10-08 15:14 ` Thomas Bulka
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