Re: How to debug problem with emacsclient and init file

[suvayu ali]

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.

If this is unrealisable for the current emacs release, could this be a
feature enhancement request for future releases?

> Jim
>

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