Re: Setting the background color of the minibuffer

[Óscar Fuentes]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> That works as advertised: the background changes when you are working on
>> the minibuffer.
>> However, I want the background changed permanently. So I tried:
>
> That's because when the minibuffer is not active, the mini window does
> not display any "minibuffer" but it displays the "echo area buffer"
> instead (of which there are two).
>
> So you'll probably want to set face-remapping-alist in " *Echo Area 0*"
> and " *Echo Area 1*".

(dolist (b (buffer-list))
  (when (or (string= (buffer-name b) " *Echo Area 0*")
            (string= (buffer-name b) " *Echo Area 1*"))
    (with-current-buffer b
      (make-local-variable 'face-remapping-alist)))
      (add-to-list 'face-remapping-alist
                   '(default (:background "black"))))

Same result: changes the background of all buffers and the mini window
reverts to the previous background from time to time (often when there
is no content to show on the mini window.)

GNU Emacs 25.0.50.2 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2014-11-18