Re: Set background color

The command M-x list-colors-display will give you a list of all the colors that are available.

If you are using X Windows, you can put commands like these in your .Xdefaults file:

Emacs.Background: Black

Emacs.Foreground: White

You could put commands like these in your .emacs file:

(set-background-color "Black")

(set-foreground-color "White")

(set-cursor-color "White")

(set-mouse-color "White")

But these commands apply to only the current frame. Commands that create additional frames would revert to the default colors.

--Greg

At 11:38 AM +0300 4/5/02, Antonis Matsakas wrote:

Hi there,
Can you tell me how can I set the background color in emacs? I am using the
set-background-color command but when I restart emacs the color setting is
gone.

Regards, Andonis Matsakas

SW Engineer