emacs themes

mohama · 03-04-2007, 01:46 PM

hello ,
i just downloaded mandriva 2007 , the free edition , and for some reason the emacs is white -uncolored- , in the former edition i used mandriva 2006 it was green and with text being colored ... the question is how can i turn it back to be colored ..??
i use emacs 21.4.2 version ..!

thanks ,

studioj · 03-04-2007, 03:35 PM

emacs can be changed by settings in a X11 Xresources file or your home ~/.Xresources file
best to just make a file in you home dir and name it .Xresources and then set it how you like.
here is mine as an example

Code:

emacs.background: black
emacs.foreground: wheat
emacs.pointerColor: Orchid
emacs.cursorColor: Orchid
emacs.bitmapIcon: on
;;emacs.font: *fixed-bold-r-*-15-*-*
emacs.geometry: 107x40

edit: for testing use the command
xrdb ~/.Xresources
otherwise you would have to log out and back in again for the file to get read.

mohama · 03-04-2007, 03:56 PM

hello ,
thanks it's work ... but i am trying to turn it back to the colores i had ... but not succeeding , where can i find a list of supported colores ?

thanks alot ,

mohama · 03-04-2007, 04:04 PM

well ,
never mind i found one ...
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_colornames.asp

i searched the darkslategray...

thanks ,

mohama · 03-05-2007, 08:10 AM

...
ok , another question...
the font how do i configure it ... where can i find a list of supported fonts ..!

thnks ,

mohama · 03-06-2007, 12:10 PM

any suggestions ??

studioj · 03-06-2007, 02:51 PM

you have a utility that comes with x called
xfontsel
with it you can look at the various long names of fonts
use a * as a wildcard for any unspecified feilds

mohama · 03-06-2007, 03:00 PM

i don't have it ... and i could not download it successfully through rpm ..!

mohama · 03-06-2007, 03:16 PM

hello ,
ok ,got it ... thank you very much ,i would never be able to know about it my own ...
thanks again !