ps-print-buffer and color in 21.3.50

[Stein A. Stromme]

[Apologies if 21.3.50 questions do not belong here]

I have a dark background in my emacs, here in .Xdefaults:

   Emacs*foreground: wheat
   Emacs*background: darkslategrey

Since I installed 21.3.50 from CVS, ps-print-buffer also produces
white text on a dark grey background on paper.  I would like to have
the behaviour from 21.2, when paper prints had dark (shades of grey in
case of ps-print-buffer-with-faces) letters on white background.  Is
there an easy fix, or is this a bug that should be reported?  Looking
in the NEWS file I can see that ps-print-stuff changed, but only with
respect to characters, fonts, mule and unicode, nothing to do with
colors.

[SuSE 7.3 GNU/Linux, XFree86 4.2.0, Emacs 21.3.50 from current CVS]

Thanks,
Stein 
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You can do this with enlightenment, a window manager you should have
installed on your system.  AFAIK, you'd have to open emacs in a terminal
window, then set the properties on that window; this can be automated
into an icon of course.  Enlightenment also allows "transparent"  
windows, i.e., the background will be whatever wallpaper would otherwise
be hidden by the window.  I did both of these before and they worked
fine.  But, depending on the background image and the color(s) of the
foreground (here, characters), the text can be difficult to read.

hth,
ken

Tom Oswald at 13:28 (UTC-0800) on Mon, 9 Dec 2002 said:

= I am using emacs 21.2.1 in a redhat 7.3 distribution.  Can a pixmap be 
= set as the background rather then a color?
= 
= Thanks,
= 
= Tom
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