Re: Face differences between emacs-nox & windows-nt

[Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name>]

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 :(