Re: Linux newbe

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 08.07.2007 um 04:47 schrieb Charles Goodrich:

> I am used to black letters on a white background,

On Linux you can use X Resources (look into the GNU Emacs manual,  
i.e. C-h i m Emacs and then search for the "Command Line Options and  
Arguments" node), which are organised in files like ~/.Xdefaults or  
~/.Xresources (depends on the actual code in ~/.xinit or similiar  
files (~/.xstart?) which set up the X11 environment).  ~/.Xdefaults  
or ~/.Xresources can #include other files with set X application  
defaults. A lot "templates" exist in directories like /usr/X11R6/lib/ 
X11/app-defaults or /usr/X11R7/share/X11/app-defaults.

In the free-form or Lisp section of ~/.emacs you can use for example:

        (setq initial-frame-alist '(
          (mouse-color           . "midnightblue")
          (foreground-color      . "grey20")
          (background-color      . "alice blue")
          (internal-border-width . 2)
          (line-spacing          . 1)
          (active-alpha          . 0.875)
          (inactive-alpha        . 0.75)
          (font . "-*-*-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-fontset- 
hiraginomin")
          (top . 25) (left . 650) (width . 91) (height . 50)))
        (setq default-frame-alist '(
          (border-color          . "#4e3831")
          (foreground-color      . "grey10")
          (background-color      . "ghost white")
          (vertical-scroll-bars  . left)
          (cursor-color          . "purple")
          (cursor-type           . box)
          (active-alpha          . 0.75)
          (inactive-alpha        . 0.875)
          (font . "-*-*-medium-r-normal--9-*-*-*-*-*-fontset- 
hiraginokaku")
          (top . 50) (left . 150) (width . 89) (height . 56)))

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Greetings

  Pete

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