Re: Change background color?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Jonas Andersson wrote:

> I just installed RedHat 9 and I run what seems Emacs 21.2. I'd like to
> change the background color of Emacs into something else that white. I
> looked at Google but I can't seem to work it out.
>
>         emacs -bg gainsboro &
>
> still gives me a white background.


Try specifying the -q and --no-site-file options before -bg COLOR.

> And how would I specify that
> 'gainsboro' should be the default background color when emacs is not
> started from a shell?

Put this in your ~/.Xdefaults file:

Emacs*Background: gainsboro

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Kevin Rodgers