Re: always white background in compiled emacs24

[kolya . ay]

I had the same problem on Debian sid. It was because Emacs tried to setup 
background/foreground colors according X resources (see `xrdb -query | grep 
Emacs`). Untill this is fixed there is a workaround: `(setq inhibit-x-resources 
t)` before any `load-theme`.

On Monday, January 13, 2014 3:49:31 PM UTC+4, Mattia Ziulu wrote:
> David Belohrad writes:
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> > Dear All,
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> > I have git version of emacs compiled, using GTK3 (but tested with others
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> > as well). When I try to load _any_ color theme using
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> > (load-theme '<theme> t)
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> > it applies all the colors except 'default-face' background and
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> > foreground colors, which are always white (background) and black
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> > (foreground).
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> > My init file does not contain anything else than
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> > #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
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> > (load-theme 'leuven t)
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> > #+END_SRC
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> > And this happens as well when no custom init file is loaded. Result is
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> > always white background. *ONLY* exception is, when I run emacs with -Q
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> > parameter. Then load-theme works correctly.
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> > Could someone point me to what I do wrong? I'm particularly puzzled with
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> > fact, that even untweaked emacs ran without -Q parameter cannot load
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> > themes correctly.
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> > Many thanks
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> > david
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> I can confirm this, and I use themes with dark backgrounds. I do think
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> that the commit that "breaks" this is [0], as reverting to the one
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> before that one lets me use whatever custom theme I want. Perhaps themes
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> need to be updated to conform to the changes introduced in by this
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> commit?
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> [0]: 
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=15e14b165dcbc6566a0459b0d5e66f89080f569e