Re: White background problem

[Fernando Dobladez]

If you use KDE 2.x, this might be the problem.... KDE tries to change 
the colors of non-KDE applications to match your KDE settings.

From a previous posting:

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In KDE, go to Preferences/Look&Feel/Style, there's a checkbox that says 
"apply fonts and colors to
non-KDE apps"
If you uncheck that, it should not interfere with your Emacs (you may 
need to re-start KDE).

But, if you want to keep that feature turned on without interfering with 
your Emacs, modify the
file Emacs.ad (search in 
/usr/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults/Emacs.ad). That's where you tell
KDE how to set the Xresources to the Emacs application.

I have the following lines commented out so that they don't change my 
Emacs colors:
----
!Emacs.default.attributeForeground:    WINDOW_FOREGROUND
!Emacs.default.attributeBackground:    WINDOW_BACKGROUND
!Emacs*Foreground:          WINDOW_FOREGROUND
!Emacs*Background:          WINDOW_BACKGROUND
;Emacs*font:                FIXED_FONT
-----

In this way, KDE still changes the colors/fonts of other applications 
AND also some things in
Emacs (like the Menubar for example, which matches the KDE-menus 
colors/font).

Good luck!

Fernando//


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Klas Nordberg wrote:

> Recently, I installed RedHat Linux 7.2 without any major problems, and I
> got emacs version 20.7-41 which worked fine.  However, when I later
> installed all the rpms related to bug fixes and updates something has
> happened to the visual appearance of my emacs.
>
> Previously there was a dark green background color and light yellow
> characters. After the updates, the background is the same (dark green)
> but all characters (except those in the status line at the bottom) are
> displayed in black on white background.
>
> As far as I can see, I did not make any update of emacs after the 7.2
> installation, so this problem may be related to other programs or
> packages which emacs interacts with.  Since there where ~100 packages
> updated, I have no idea where to look.
>
> The last changes in .emacs and .Xdefaults are before emacs worked fine.
>
> Any help/suggestions on how to remove this annoying effect is highly
> appreciated.
>
>
> Klas Nordberg
>
>
>
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