Emacs Colors
color-theme
This is how I'm currently setting my colors and fonts in Emacs 23 on Ubuntu Maverick, in my .emacs:
(add-to-list 'load-path
"/usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/emacs-goodies-el")
(require 'color-theme)
(color-theme-initialize)
(eval-after-load "color-theme"
(if (not (eq (symbol-value 'window-system) nil))
(color-theme-gnome2)
(color-theme-arjen)
))
To get the color-theme and other useful packages on ubuntu, install the emacs-goodies-el package.
Default Colors
This is how I was setting my colors and fonts in Emacs 23 on Ubuntu Lucid:
Emacs*.pointerColor:Orchid
Emacs*.cursorColor:Orchid
Emacs*.bitmapIcon:on
Emacs*.background: DarkSlateGray
Emacs*.foreground: Wheat
Emacs*font: -unknown-Inconsolata-normal-normal-normal-*-11-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
To get the Inconsolata font, you have to install the ttf-inconsolata
package. After adding the above to your .Xdefaults
file, you have to trigger the change in X by running:
xrdb -merge .Xdefaults