I have a function that sets Emacs' color theme to a theme defined by myself. In this function I do:
(set-face-attribute 'default cur-frame :foreground fg-color :background bg-color)
I then set the background color, foreground color, and cursor color for default-frame-alist
, initial-frame-alist
and special-display-frame-alist
.
All of this works fine on my Mac. But when I use this on Linux, it looks fine for all frames that have already been opened, but on newly created frames it looks like this:
I do not have this problem with new frames if use the set-background-color
/ set-foreground-color
functions instead of (set-face-attribute 'default ...
). But if I do that I have to manually reset the colors for every frame that's already open.
I am using Emacs version 23.3 on both Mac and Ubuntu.
For clarification, this is the theme file I use:
set-face-attribute
sets, as the name suggest, the attributes of a face (i.e., font-related properties), not the attributes of the frame. Use
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(background-color . "lightgray"))
and similar to change frame-related properties.