how do I change the theme of emacs and the background color from white to the desired one ??

Thanks

You can get themes packages from here: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/ColorTheme
The instructions are in README/INSTALL.

Basically, you need to copy all the .el files to a directory in your emacs lisp path. You can
create one in your ~/ and add it to ~/.emacs

Once you've restart emacs the themes should be available. What you need to do is type:
Alt+x color-theme-select RETURN

You'll get a list of themes that you can try. If you like a theme, place the cursor on a given theme and press 'd' - it will give you the exact name of this particular theme.

To ensure emacs starts with your chosen theme, add the following to ~/.emacs

In this case my theme is called 'deep-blue'

HTH

is there a way to do that through .Xresources files ????
I did that once long time ago through modifing some file called .******* ??

thanks

Here's some info about it:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ma...e-of-Resources

I might need an example file to copy and paste it ,since I have no such file here ???

Thanks