Questions tagged [themes]
Questions about using, creating, and modifying color themes and custom themes.
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Cannot set default theme. Dark theme even if loaded without .emacs and without .emacs.d
When I load emacs without any configuration I see a dark theme:
There is no way for me to get back to the default theme. I tried the following:
M-x disable-theme: no theme is enabled
M-x ...
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I want the color-theme to highlight the text in the buffers but not change the colors in the menu bar
I loaded a color-theme (manoj-dark) to highlight text in the buffers but it also changed the color of the menu bar. Now the menu bar icons are setting in a black background and the title bar of the ...
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Adding box around text without changing the text width
The documentation of Face Attributes suggests that adding a line-width of -n to the box attribute will
draw a line of width n whose top and bottom parts occupy the space of
the underlying text, ...
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Get asked to confirm safe theme forever
I created a theme which I stored in ~/.emacs.d/themes/, added this
directory to custom-theme-load-path, and put (load-theme
"the-theme.el") in my init.el. Now restarting emacs, I get
prompted whether ...
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Spacemacs — themes won't load after adding to config layers
I'm probably not understanding something basic...
Following the docs, I've added themes-megapack to dotspacemacs-configuration-layers '(...), but typing space f-e-R I'm told that themes-megapack has ...
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running emacs as a daemon does not load custom-set-faces?
I am starting with emacs --daemon in my session, and it seems to trigger some odd behavior regarding themes and faces. I am using this solarized theme but I have found it to have weird cursor issues. ...
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List of themes available in Spacemacs
helm-themes loads the themes present in
custom-load-themes which are coming from custom-theme-load-path (as per C-h f helps)
After installing themes mega-pack, the list is the following :
Available ...
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How to change the font color of popup in haskell layer
I am not good at emacs because using spacemacs only for haskell coding.
I want to change the font color of popup from white to black. White text on yellow popup is too hard to read.
It's solarized ...
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Can't Load Custom Theme
I am currently using Zenburn. My .emacs file contains
(require 'package)
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/"))
(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "~/.emacs.d/...
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Change the color of the file-name as it appears on an Emacs buffer mode line
I just downloaded the hemisu theme for Emacs which works very nicely. One flipside of the theme is that the file-name shows up in very lightly colored letters, and so becomes difficult to read. This ...
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Set theme based on name ending [duplicate]
I use Emacs for both programming and writing documents with org mode. Can I set the wheatgrass theme for my programming files based on the extension of the file and use another theme for org mode?
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Keyboard shortcuts for applying a theme [duplicate]
I want to bind loading a specific theme to a key-binding.
However, this does not work.
(global-set-key (kbd "C-<f1>") '(load-theme 'zenburn))
I would like Ctrl and the F1 key to apply the ...
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Atom Dark Theme Not Applied Completely
I run emacs from my xfce4 (version 0.8.7.4) terminal on my Linux machine. When I applied the atom-one-dark-theme, I noticed that below the information bar it did not apply that colouring of the theme ...
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My theme's default face is ignored
I recently changed my Linux distribution (from an old Opensuse 13.1 to Linux Mint 19, which comes with "GNU Emacs 25.2.2 of 2017-09-22, modified by Debian"), and now my very basic theme is not working ...
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(orgmode) Coloring the line for the whole heading
I want the entire line containing a heading in orgmode to be the background color of that heading. So for instance right now I have is what is shown in Heading 1 and 2, but what I want looks like ...
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How to make everything except the text transparent?
How to make everything except the text transparent?
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tabbar with theme
I want to remove a white border of the tabbar.
(The strange color choice is only for checking the configuration of faces.)
As you can see, the right part of tabbar has a white border and I can not ...
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Syntax highlighting not working in Emacs (in Python mode)
When I Python-mode I have noticed that occasionally my syntax highlighting is not working.
I have noticed this when using the Cyberpunk theme as well as the Tango-Dark theme.
Closing and reopening ...
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Retain system color scheme when running without GUI
I'm typically running emacs -nw: problem is that Emacs overrides terminal (bash) color scheme and uses it's own default one which is in some cases unreadable.
I would like emacs to use default ...
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Different themes in different modes
I would like to do the following: load some theme when working on a particular kind of source file (say, Haskell), but elsewhere use a different "default" theme.
I naively imagine that this is ...
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some set-face-attribute not being applied when I create a new frame using C-x 5 2
I've a few set-face-attribute statements inside eval-after-load blocks inside my zenburn theme configuration. These are working fine when I startup emacs using emacsclient. But, when I create a new ...
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How to disable the line coloring in the wombat Emacs theme?
I want to start using Emacs through the terminal, and I have settled on the wombat theme which seems to work best with my terminal. The only weird thing about the wombat theme is the golden line which ...
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Which mode-line package(s) is/are most extendable?
My question:
Hi, lately I've been looking into various mode-line customization packages such as Smart Mode Line, Powerline, Spaceline, or Telephone Line. I'd like to write a package that works ...
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Custom theme based on major mode or file type
How can I customize emacs to use a different theme based on major mode or file-type? And, could it work to have different themes active in different windows?
My use case would be: have (1) one ...
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M-x menu display like spacemacs
For some reason, I am not getting spacemacs. But I need the feature that when I do M-x, it displays the column of menu of commands, which I can select from using direction keys (Up and Down) and ...
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How to adjust specific colors in solarized-dark for Emacs
I'm using the solarized-dark custom emacs theme - I love the theme in general, but would rather use the theme's red in place of the orange used commonly throughout...I tried changing the hex values ...
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How to make emacs appear as if it is being run through a PuTTY terminal?
Throughout undergraduate, I used emacs via PuTTY from my Windows laptop (the school had a C toolchain set up on a server so I ssh'd in to do all my CS assignments). Now, I have set up my own local ...
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Emacs Terminal vs Emacs GUI: different look & feel for the same theme
Whenever I install a theme, I notice it odes not appear exactly the same way on Emacs Terminal and Emacs GUI.
For example, I installed this theme recently, and it behaves as the previous ones I ...
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Load custom highlighting after colorscheme change
I am a Vim user and i recently decided to try Emacs Spacemacs, i have a problem setting up custom highlighting, i set some lines like the following in my .spacemacs (i guess it's the same problem in ...
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Emacs custom themes overview
Quick question, and happy to delete if not in scope.
I use the load-theme command to change the theme of Emacs to one of the custom themes.
Is there a place that gives a (visual) overview of the ...
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Use specific code-based syntax highlighting in source blocks
I have enabled syntax highlighting in source blocks via:
(setq org-src-fontify-natively t)
(source: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/examples/fontify-src-code-blocks.html)
I would like to ...
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Themes in emacs-nox displaying bottom part of frame black instead of background color
Edit: I tried many themes and it was an issue for all of them so this is not a Zenburn specific issue.
Edit: Docker is not part of the issue as there is the same behavior when this is done using just ...
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smart-mode-line and background color
I'm a newby of Emacs, and I'm customizing it. I was following this link to set powerline theme with smart-mode-line. I'm following the instruction and I noticed that while my mode-line changes color, ...
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Spacemacs change line background color when has comment
I currently have a strange behave when my code has comment on Spacemacs. Making it bad to read a file with a lot of comments
Anyone knows how to change this behave? I tried to search about it and ...
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Not able to load a color theme from 'init.el' or using 'M-x color-theme-select'
I am trying to get emacs(emacs24) to load with another colortheme (looking to have a 'dark' theme). In my init.el file I have the lines:
(eval-after-load "color-theme"
'(progn
(color-theme-...
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Changing look of flycheck pop-up tooltip
When I use emacs compiled with gtk3, the look of flycheck tooltip is really ugly:
Is there any way to change it? I remember that gtk2 version looked much better.
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How to specify a color theme specifically for Latex editing (the buffers with .tex files)?
I am using Emacs and there are various 'themes', eg. link to examples, but they do not appear to be dedicated to Latex. Some have modes for Latex, but I am wondering if there are theme files that can ...
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sanityinc-tomorrow-eighties theme fails to show dired mode colors
I have the theme sanityinc-tomorrow-eighties enabled using
(load-theme 'sanityinc-tomorrow-eighties t).
I love this theme but my dired buffers do not show colors. I have installed and enabled dired+...
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How to add new themes to Spacemacs permanently?
The accepted answer here and other online resources suggest editing dotspacemacs-themes
dotspacemacs-themes '(solarized-light
solarized-dark)
I want to add two themes.
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Theme editing: bash: change color of heredoc
I am editing a bash theme file for emacs. I can't seem to figure out which keyword defines the color of heredoc in bash.
(e.g.:
cat<<EOF
some code here
EOF
)
How can I set the color coding ...
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Why are custom themes not usually byte-compiled?
Three pieces of evidence suggest custom themes should not be byte-compiled:
All built-in themes under etc/themes specify no-byte-compile: t.
The function custom-available-themes considers only .el ...
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does anybody know this light-blue emacs theme's name?
emmm.
i just found through all the MELPA by keywords theme,
but still cant find this theme, if someone can point out,
i'll appreciate a lot, i love this theme very much.
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How to detect the term color support inside of a emacsclient session?
I run a emacs daemon on boot as a OpenRC service without info about terminals. When I plug a different terminal on emacsclient so, I don't have env variables instead that was generated inside of emacs ...
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How to remove visible margin on the sides of the echo area?
I have a question that might be unique. I am new to emacs, so please forgive me (or point me in the right direction) if I missed something obvious or say something wrong.
My problem is that I have ...
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Emacs configurations samples
I am starting over with emacs after a long time and installed GNU OSX (https://emacsformacosx.com/). I was configuring it for key strokes and themes and was wondering if there are samples out there ...
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When M-x desktop-read, theme elements incorrectly restored / displayed: previous theme saved into desktop file?
I'm a new Emacs user, and I've come across a quirk:
I use a light theme during the day, and I've configured theme-changer to switch to a dark theme after sundown; it works wonders.
However, when I ...
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Company-Mode: Drop-down menu won't change themes?
Per the title of this inquiry, the drop-down menu has an unpleasant aesthetic. Previously in my myinit.org, I incorporated this string of code to change the color scheme for company, which according ...
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Emacs lines displaced/shifted for no reason
I tought, the problem would be solved, from not using a theme anymore.
But actually there are displaced lines, whenever I'm using emacs with files, which where edited on another system. So probably my ...
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Documentation for mode-line-emphasis and mode-line-interactive
I'm seeing mode-line-emphasis and mode-line-inactive used in color themes to change the mode-line face value for used and unused buffers.
describe-function and describe-variable don't have an entry ...
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nw in powershell; themes ignored
I'd like to run emacs in powershell (on windows 7) with emacs -nw with the misterioso theme.
When I M-x load-theme misterioso the theme'ing doesn't happen. However when I M-x load-theme manoj-dark, ...
