Xemacs background color

[Fritz Whittington]

On or about 2003-12-26 21:37, Tom Mitchell whipped out a trusty #2 
pencil and scribbled:

>On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, Ray Curtis wrote:
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>>>>>>>"ms" == Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> writes:
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>>    ms> In earlier releases of RHL, the background color of an Xemacs window was
>>    ms> light grey.  In FC1, the window background is white.  I'd like to reset
>>    ms> that color, but I can't figure out what xemacs option or X resource to set
>>    ms> to accomplish this.  Does anyone out there know?
>>
>>    ms> Thanks.
>>
>>All these features should be able to set from the menus, under
>>Options / Edit Faces / Default
>>
>>or in .Xdefaults add:
>>
>>xemacs*Background: blue
>>    
>>
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>or in  ~/.emacs/custom.el
>  (custom-set-faces
> '(default ((t (:background "grey" :size "16pt" :family "Courier"))) t))
>
>If grey/gray is not to your liking any color named in
>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt should be possible.
>
>There is an interface for editing this stuff as well 
>look under options-->customize emacs
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Works great!  On a related subject, do you know how to specify the size 
of the initial window?  Mine opens with a window just about right in 
width, but about 50% taller than the screen, so the first thing I always 
have to do is re-size the top down about half-screen, then move the 
title bar back up so I can see the bottom edge of the window.  Can't 
seem to find this in the info faq, maybe I don't know what to search for.

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Fritz Whittington
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