Re: conditional font faces

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Thamer,

On 01/03/10 10:50 AM, Thamer Mahmoud wrote:
> Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>  writes:
>
> > The default face for the minibuffer-prompt is medium blue in no-window
> > which makes it very difficult for me to see.
>
> > Is there some way I could keep the defaults when using GUI and set it
> > to something more readable when using no-window?
>
> Just add the following code to your .emacs file:
>
> (when (not window-system)
>    (set-face-foreground 'minibuffer-prompt "white")
>    ;; more customizations for no-window mode ...
>    )
>
> However, this won't work when using emacsclient -t. So if you run server
> or daemon mode, use this instead:

This was my exact problem, maybe I should have stated it explicitly. I 
use server mode a lot. Thanks for posting this, I will try this out 
today and see which of the solutions (Tim's or the one below) serves my 
purpose better.

> (defun my-color-customizations-for-nw (frame)
>    "Runs after creating new frames"
>    (select-frame frame)
>    (when (not window-system)
>      (set-face-foreground 'minibuffer-prompt "black" frame)))
> (add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions 'my-color-customizations-for-nw)

Thank you very much! :)

> --
> Thamer

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