Re: Changing foreground/background colors in all frames

[Swidan, Firas]

Thanks for the help. I have tried Gil's suggestion and it seems that it did
the trick.

Firas.


On 6/21/06 1:24 PM, "Gilbert Harman" <harman@Princeton.EDU> wrote:

>> 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?
> 
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(foreground-color . "white"))
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(background-color . "black"))
> 
> 
>   Gil
> 
>