Re: How to debug problem with emacsclient and init file

[Jim Burton]

At Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:11:30 -0700,
suvayu ali wrote:
> 
> On 16 April 2010 10:12, Jim Burton <jim@sdf-eu.org> wrote:
> > At Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:52:54 -0700,
> > Suvayu Ali wrote:
> >>
> > [snip]
> >>
> >> I was trying to get something like this working. To follow the
> >> discussion look at the thread "conditional font faces" from the 27th of
> >> February to 5th of March.
> >>
> >> The only solution was to use a theme which uses similar colour schemes
> >> as no window to present a consistent environment in either and X window
> >> or the terminal.
> >>
> >> GL and plz do post back if you find something that can actually switch
> >> between to themes without resorting to the above compromise.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks to malsyned on #emacs I have the following that works like a charm:
> >
> > (add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions
> >          '(lambda (f)
> >             (with-selected-frame f
> >               (if (window-system f)
> >                   (color-theme-gray30)
> >                 (color-theme-emacs-nw)))))
> >
> 
> I have tried something like that before, the problem with this is it
> changes the theme for all the existing frames. So if I make an X
> window frame, I get the proper theme. Then if I start a client in the
> xterm, I get the proper theme for the no-window frame but my X window
> frame also changes theme to that theme. It doesn't change back to the
> desired X window theme even when I select the X window frame with the
> mouse or Alt+Tab. It would be good if themes could be selected for
> specific frames and not the entire emacs session itself.
>

I should have said, in addition to the hook you need

(setq color-theme-is-global nil)

Apologies,

Jim 
> If this is unrealisable for the current emacs release, could this be a
> feature enhancement request for future releases?
> 
> > Jim
> >
> 
> -- 
> Suvayu
> 
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-- 
J Burton