From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gary Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Face differences between emacs-nox & windows-nt Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:37:25 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87k4ltivfv.fsf@mail.tbulka.de> <83wrptrtjk.fsf@garydjones.name> <83hbgxnjzh.fsf@gnu.org> <83y6a97xus.fsf@garydjones.name> <83aamooo96.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287564725 13728 80.91.229.12 (20 Oct 2010 08:52:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:52:05 +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 Oct 20 10:52:03 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8UOw-00010V-TM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:52:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51085 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8UOv-0003CF-Bt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:52:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52090 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8UB1-0003an-Nb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:37:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8UB0-0007Kz-Ak for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:37:39 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37638) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8UB0-0007KL-5K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:37:38 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8UAx-0004tb-FQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:37:35 +0200 Original-Received: from ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net ([213.160.40.69]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:37:35 +0200 Original-Received: from help-gnu-emacs by ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:37:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ge-u-fw01.ggamaur.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (cygwin) X-No-Archive: Yes Mail-Copies-To: never X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-Gmane-Expiry: 2010-11-03 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75167 Archived-At: 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 :(