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Different theme for -nw (terminal)
Use display-graphic-p to determine if Emacs is in a GUI or not.
Assuming solarized is installed and loaded:
(if (display-graphic-p)
(enable-theme 'solarized)
(enable-theme 'wheatgrass))
See ...
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29
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Emacs won't load theme on startup
add to your init.el
(load-theme 'solarized-dark t)
you can ignore stuff emacs added there, just delete it.
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Emacs won't load theme on startup
By default, Emacs only autoload the packages after processing the init file. So when it was trying to set theme, the theme package wasn't loaded.
Rather than making all packages load in your init ...
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votes
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How to reset color theme?
Are you sure that you are using color themes and not Emacs custom themes? Color themes are defined by library color-theme.el. Custom themes are available starting with Emacs 24 - and they are not the ...
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23
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Stop emacs asking if a theme is safe
Set the second argument of the load-theme function. From its docstring:
If the theme is not considered safe by ‘custom-safe-themes’,
prompt the user for confirmation before loading it. But if
...
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How to customize background color for some web pages opened with eww?
I'm not sure why the background color is there either, but it seems to be controlled by the function shr-color-check, which is supposed to check that the contrast between the fg and bg is sufficient ...
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Emacs won't load theme on startup
I've added the following to my init.el file (I don't have a .emacsfile in ~).
(setq package-enable-at-startup nil) (package-initialize)
and then at the end
(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-...
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Is there a transparent theme?
I found a solution, and no longer I need transparent theme.
The solution is :
;; set transparency
(set-frame-parameter (selected-frame) 'alpha '(85 85))
(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(alpha 85 ...
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How do I change portions of a custom theme?
I favor using custom-theme-set-faces to redefine how the theme displays a particular face, e.g.,
(custom-theme-set-faces
'zenburn
'(font-lock-comment-face ((t (:foreground "#DFAF8F"))))
'(font-...
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13
votes
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How to change the mouse pointer colour?
Just found this, did not tried it:
(set-mouse-color "red")
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custom-theme-set-faces does not work in emacs 27
Put this line in your init. Theme changes will take effect immediately in
Emacs 27.
(setq custom--inhibit-theme-enable nil)
Presumably the automatic theme changing was disabled for a good reason. ...
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describe-face character not under / unreachable by the cursor
I do not know about using the mouse, but I've often found it's easiest for me to run list-faces-display and then just i-search for what the face is likely called or visually scan for text that looks ...
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11
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Is there any way to run a hook function only once?
I'm guessing that you are not really looking for a way to "execute the hook only once". I'm guessing that you are looking for a way to execute that particular function only once, whenever the hook is ...
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10
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Use a different color theme for eww buffers
Update:
load-theme-buffer-local.el (GitHub repository) is supposed to do what I tried to do, but do it the right way.
To use it with eww, install it and add
(add-hook 'eww-mode-hook
(...
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describe-face character not under / unreachable by the cursor
There are 4 regions where text may be displayed in Emacs, here is what
you can do to inspect each of them.
The mode-line: See the value of mode-line-format.
The header-line: See the value of header-...
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10
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Emacs always ask to trust colour theme at startup
Your init.el file probably contains a snippet like this:
(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your ...
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10
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Why expression fails in init file, but works fine during session
I believe it is standard practice for themes installed as packages to add their own paths to custom-theme-load-path as an autoload. A call to package-initialize will execute all of your package ...
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How to change face in particular theme locally?
Use custom-theme-set-faces in a with-eval-after-load to easily customize a theme.
For example, this modifies ample-theme to have a lighter background and green keywords instead of the defaults.
(...
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9
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Different themes for terminal and graphical frames when using Emacs daemon
You cannot do this using different themes. The solution is to create a theme that has different face definitions depending on the terminal. If you look at an example like font-lock-comment-face, you'...
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votes
Finding a specify Org-mode Color Theme
Not sure of the specific colors, but to replace the asterisks with custom unicode chars, you might use https://github.com/sabof/org-bullets
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how do i install "solarized-theme"?
github.com/altercation/solarized.git is the repository for the Solarized theme for vim.
For emacs, the repo is https://github.com/bbatsov/solarized-emacs.
The recommended approach to install the ...
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How do I change portions of a custom theme?
In spacemacs, install the layer theming, see https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/tree/master/layers/%2Bthemes/theming
For example, I have the following snipped in the dotspacemacs/user-init of my ....
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How can I find out what face I need to change in the mode-line?
M-x list-faces-display shows you all of the faces currently defined, including those with names mode-line*. It shows you the appearance of each face.
And it lets you customize any of them - just ...
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custom-theme-set-faces does not work in emacs 27
Another solution would be to add enable-theme to the custom theme settings, such as:
(when (< emacs-major-version 27)
(package-initialize))
(load-theme 'leuven t)
(custom-theme-set-faces
'...
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votes
Is there a transparent theme?
You can set transparency within Emacs by setting 'alpha frame parameter,
This parameter specifies the opacity of the frame, on graphical displays that support variable opacity. It should be an ...
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Emacs won't load theme on startup
I think the important part is (package-initialize). I'm not so sure you need the package-enable-at-startup bit. So:
(package-initialize)
(load-theme 'ample t)
You can also tell emacs to trust all ...
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Orgmode: Extra vertical space between level 1 and previous line
There may be a better way, but the following can help. From org documentation, if you insert more than one blank line before the heading, one blank line will be displayed:
An empty line after the ...
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votes
Different themes for terminal and graphical frames when using Emacs daemon
color-theme-buffer-local provides buffer-local theme support for both color-theme and the Emacs 24 theme systems. My version of the solarized theme also supports both systems, if you decide to go this ...
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Why does load-theme reset the custom-theme-load-path?
The Short Answer
You should not customize the custom-theme-load-path variable in the Customize interface.
So call M-x customize-variable RET custom-theme-load-path and ask
to erase customizations (...
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Finding a specify Org-mode Color Theme
Doesn't sound like a theme to be honest.
Try org-bullet.
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