Re: How does Emacs know the background color?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Michael Herman wrote:

> On a sort of related note, is there a way to tell how emacs was
> launched from the command line?  I'd like to modify my .emacs to
> change settings depending on whether I used emacs -nw or not.

Check the window-system variable.  But it would be better to check the specific

display characteristics you're interested in instead.

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