On Tue, 20 Sep 2016 11:21:01 +0200 Gerhard Zintel <gerhard.zintel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 20 September 2016, A M wrote: > > I cannot start emacs on this machine, it ends up with this > > error: [ Undefined color: "WINDOW_FOREGROUND" ]. > > I had the same issue before. I cannot clearly remember but try to > un-check "Apply colors to non-TDE applications" in TDE Control Center > => Appearence & Themes => Colors. > > This might help. > That's a bad solution - this checkbox is unfortunately named, it should be named "apply styles' - it govern not only colors, but also button styles, button placements and fonts in gtk apps The correct solution is to add following to you .xsession file ( sleep 10 xrdb -all -query|sed -e 's#[A-Z_]*BACKGROUND# gray90#' \ -e 's#[A-Z_]*FOREGROUND# Black#' \ -e 's#[A-Z_]*HIGHLIGHT# White#' \ -e 's#[A-Z_]*LOWLIGHT# Black#'|xrdb -merge ) & -- Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@xxxxxxxxx) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting