From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Allan Gottlieb Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: finding the face of a popup Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:50:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188245090 13453 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2007 20:04:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:04:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 27 22:04:29 2007 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 4.50) id 1IPkdL-0003Au-HI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:52:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPkdL-0004MB-2z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:52:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPkbs-0003Lw-6l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:50:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IPkbq-0003L4-5j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:50:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IPkbp-0003Kz-VQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:50:50 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu ([128.122.140.230]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IPkbp-0005yp-Js for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4578d5e5.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.213.229]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l7RJom9Y020223 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:50:48 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id EAA3119D972; Mon, 27 Aug 2007 15:50:42 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (John Paul Wallington's message of "Mon\, 27 Aug 2007 20\:14\:28 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Solaris 9 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:46897 Archived-At: At Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:14:28 +0100 John Paul Wallington wrote: > Allan Gottlieb writes: > >> Some popups have become invisible; I believe they have >> foreground=background=white. Since I am using the color-theme >> package, I do not claim this is an emacs bug and I am not asking for a >> fix. >> >> My question is how do I find the name of this face. > > I'm not sure how to find that out, but the face's name is `tooltip'. > That is the commonly used name for those small windows that popup to > display information at the current mouse position. Thank you. I was able to modify the color theme to fix that face. But I do hope there is a better way to find out the face of a popup than asking on the list. Thanks again, allan