Re: Changing foreground/background colors in all frames

[Ehud Karni]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:33:51 -0400, Swidan, Firas wrote:
>
> I am unable to set the default foreground and background colors in all emacs
> frames. I have added
>
> (set-background-color "black")
> (set-foreground-color "white")
>
> To my .emacs. This changes the setting in the first emacs frame.  However,
> if I use
>
> C-x 5 f
>
> To open a new file in a new frame, the foreground/background settings in the
> .emacs file do not seem to affect the look of the new frame.

The docs for these functions state clearly they change colors only for
the selected frame.

Below is a little function that changes values on all frames (current
and future ones), use it.

Ehud.


(defun set-frame-value-all (key val)        ;; change frame attribute
    (aput 'initial-frame-alist key val)     ;; for ALL frames
    (aput 'default-frame-alist key val)
    (modify-frame-parameters (selected-frame) (list (cons key val))))


;; instead of (set-background-color "black") use:
    (set-frame-value-all 'background-color "black")

;; instead of (set-foreground-color "black") use:
    (set-frame-value-all 'foreground-color "black")


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