Re: mode-line face and window manager

[Nick Roberts]

Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > > From: Nick Roberts <address@hidden>
 > > Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 09:51:47 +1300
 > > Cc: address@hidden
 > >  > 
 > >  > Where's the coupling with the window manager or theme?
 > > 
 > > That's my question really, presumably somewhere in the C code.  If I change
 > > theme, the colour of the mode-line changes along with the colour of the
 > > toolbar, while the colour of mode-line-inactive face remains fixed.
 > 
 > Maybe changing theme (whatever that means) has the effect of changing
 > X resources?

Sorry I got that wrong, the mode-line doesn't change if I change theme, but it
does pick up the background value of #ede9e3 from some gnome/gtk related
setting along with the toolbar (the initial window manager seems to use this
setting for the panel and frames without focus).  The scroll-bar, however, does
has a value of grey75 (although I'm not sure where this comes frome).

Previously it didn't matter that the colour of the mode-line was tied to X
resources, but my point is that now there is mode-line-inactive face, it's
important that Emacs doesn't do this.  I find it hard to see which window is
selected by looking at the mode-line.


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