Re: always white background in compiled emacs24

[David Belohrad]

----------right! that's it. I had it setup as well and apparently for
background it takes preceedence over what is written in .emacs.

many thanks!
.d.


kolya.ay@gmail.com writes:

> I had the same problem on Debian sid. It was because Emacs tried to setup 
> background/foreground colors according X resources (see `xrdb -query | grep 
> Emacs`). Untill this is fixed there is a workaround: `(setq 
> inhibit-x-resources t)` before any `load-theme`.
>
> On Monday, January 13, 2014 3:49:31 PM UTC+4, Mattia Ziulu wrote:
>> David Belohrad writes:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > Dear All,
>> 
>> >
>> 
>> > I have git version of emacs compiled, using GTK3 (but tested with others
>> 
>> > as well). When I try to load _any_ color theme using
>> 
>> >
>> 
>> > (load-theme '<theme> t)
>> 
>> >
>> 
>> > it applies all the colors except 'default-face' background and
>> 
>> > foreground colors, which are always white (background) and black
>> 
>> > (foreground).
>> 
>> >
>> 
>> > My init file does not contain anything else than
>> 
>> >
>> 
>> > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
>> 
>> > (load-theme 'leuven t)
>> 
>> > #+END_SRC
>> 
>> >
>> 
>> > And this happens as well when no custom init file is loaded. Result is
>> 
>> > always white background. *ONLY* exception is, when I run emacs with -Q
>> 
>> > parameter. Then load-theme works correctly.
>> 
>> >
>> 
>> > Could someone point me to what I do wrong? I'm particularly puzzled with
>> 
>> > fact, that even untweaked emacs ran without -Q parameter cannot load
>> 
>> > themes correctly.
>> 
>> >
>> 
>> > Many thanks
>> 
>> >
>> 
>> >
>> 
>> > david
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I can confirm this, and I use themes with dark backgrounds. I do think
>> 
>> that the commit that "breaks" this is [0], as reverting to the one
>> 
>> before that one lets me use whatever custom theme I want. Perhaps themes
>> 
>> need to be updated to conform to the changes introduced in by this
>> 
>> commit?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> [0]: 
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=15e14b165dcbc6566a0459b0d5e66f89080f569e