Re: Different buffer background depending on if window active

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Deniz Dogan <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've always wanted to have the currently active window in Emacs have a
> different background color to see which one I'm currently "in" easier.
>  One could imagine this as a part of a much larger change to have a
> whole set of different parameters depending on the currently active
> window.
>
> Has this feature been requested before?  Would it be cumbersome to
> implement?  Is it desirable at all?  Can this be hacked together using
> simple Emacs Lisp?

An alternative that you can use is to customize the faces mode-line
and mode-line-inactive.