Re: Background color in terminal

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 19:48:29 +0100
> 
> It seems Emacs is assuming background types (dark or light) according to
> terminal types.

Only on character (i.e. text-mode) terminals, since there's no
standard API to query them for their default background color.

> Now I have one terminal screen-256color. Emacs thinks it is dark
> background when it is actually light background. How can I correct this?

I think you want to customize the variable frame-background-mode,
which see.