Daniel,

What version of emacs are you on?

color-theme is a very old style of setting themes. I believe load-theme
will not work for color themes.

Check out this recent answer on emacs.SE for more detail:
http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/13825/115

--
Kaushal Modi
On Jul 9, 2015 3:44 AM, "Daniel Hertrich" <daniel@daniel-hertrich.photo>
wrote:

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> > Am 09.07.2015 um 04:45 schrieb Samuel W. Flint <swflint@flintfam.org>:
> >
> > Daniel Hertrich <daniel@daniel-hertrich.photo> writes:
> >
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> quick question, as I don’t really see any root cause for this:
> >> Whenever I try to load a color theme directly from .emacs using
> >> load-theme, e.g.
> >>
> >> (load-theme 'cyberpunk)
> >
> > Try ~(load-theme 'cyberpunk t nil)~.  That should work.
>
> Unfortunately it doesn’t. It has the same effect as without the „t nil“,
> background color is not applied.
>
> Daniel
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