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Re: Changing foreground/background colors in all frames


From: Tim X
Subject: Re: Changing foreground/background colors in all frames
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:36:13 +1000
User-agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"Swidan, Firas" <swidanf@hhmi.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I am unable to set the default foreground and background colors in all emacs
> frames. I have added
>
> (set-background-color "black")
> (set-foreground-color "white")
>
> To my .emacs. This changes the setting in the first emacs frame.  However,
> if I use 
>
> C-x 5 f 
>
> To open a new file in a new frame, the foreground/background settings in the
> .emacs file do not seem to affect the look of the new frame.
>
> Any ideas how to tackle this issue?
>
> Many thanks and all the best,
> Firas.
>
>
>

Either set the values in default-frame-alist AND initial-fram-alist or
far easier, use M-x customize-face <ret> default <ret>

Tim

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tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au


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