From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Javier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Face customisation ignored Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:31:38 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1536744831 15235 195.159.176.226 (12 Sep 2018 09:33:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 09:33:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/3.18.6-1-ARCH (x86_64)) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 12 11:33:47 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g01Ws-0003sU-Po for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:33:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35312 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g01Yz-0001yN-8h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Sep 2018 05:35:57 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: aPJVVR0E0beUwQdJulDzVg.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223740 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117865 Archived-At: Mick Bert wrote: > > and a chunk of my .Xresources > > emacs*cursorBlibk: true > emacs*cursorColor: #404040 > emacs*font: -*-fixed-*-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > !emacs*font: -*-terminus-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 > !emacs*font: -*-nimbus mono > l-medium-r-normal--0-0-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 > emacs*foreground: #404040 > emacs*geometry: 140x80 > emacs*reverseVideo: true > emacs*toolBar: true > emacs*fullscreen: false Using emacs*reverseVideo might not be a good idea. Try setting background and foreground explicitly. For testing you can put the resources in the command line. emacs \ -xrm 'emacs*background: #404040' \ -xrm 'emacs*foreground: #0099FF' emacsclient does not accept the xrm option, I guess because the Xresources are loaded only once at the server initialization. You can customize the frames created by emacsclient with --frame-parameters=ALIST --eval "(progn (...) (...))" (info "(emacs) emacsclient Options") (info "(emacs) Table of Resources") After you edit ~/.Xresources remember to do xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources Also, if you are using .Xresources you may want to try emacs compiled with the lucid toolkit instead of GTK. Some of the .Xresources values do not work with GTK. You should have a package emacs-lucid or emacs24-lucid in your distro.