Leuven theme cause emacsclient not to start

Question

I have a hint for leuven which look quite nice, especially the presentation in orgmode, so I've installed with from the package manager.

Since I can't find it in M-x cusomize-themes, I have tried to load it with (load-theme 'leuven) in my .emacs, and this cause emacs -daemon failing to start...

Has anyone ever encountered that problem with leuven theme before ?

Thank you

Answer 1

I have similar issue before. My understanding is emacs --daemon doesn't try to create a frame. But the theme or face configuration try to wait until the frame is created to apply it.

My current solution is (not perfect):

Add you configuration to after-make-frame-functions hook.

For example:

(defun ec-theme-cfg ()
    ;; put your configuration here)

(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions #'ec-theme-cfg)

After that change, emacs --daemon can start properly and emacsclient works well.

But there's an issue with this solution, after run emacs --daemon, I have to at least create an Emacs frame (emacsclient -c) before I can use emacsclient -t from terminal.

Answer 2

The best way would be to make sure it does appear in your customize-themesmenu, rather than loading it manually via your init file. Leuven appear sin my list of themes (although you can see below I do not use it as default)

Is you can see in the image below, there is the tip at the top

Theme files are named *-theme.el in `custom-theme-load-path'.

So make sure you have the file saved on that path. To get help with this, try C-h v then custom-theme-load-path, which will show you the current path(s) defined and gives hints on how to customise it.

Answer 3

I've had problems with emacs-daemon and themes for a while. I bind this to f5 and just execute it after I open my first frame. Without doing this spacemacs-dark doesn't appear quite right.

(defun startup-load ()
  "Reload things because Emacs daemon has strange behavior with frames and themes."
  (interactive)
  (resize-frame-small)
  (load-theme 'spacemacs-dark t)
  (theme-setup-set-faces)
  (resize-frame-left))