That is pretty weird. It should be defined in org-faces.el. What org version are you using? John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 6:53 AM, Karl Voit wrote: > * John Kitchin wrote: > > I halso have no org-block-background in my setup: C-h v org-block-! > > > > Are faces supposed to show as variable? > > I have no clue. Unfortunately, my elisp knowledge is very small. > > > in my setup, this is defined in org-faces. > > > > Maybe you can do something as mundane as > > (set-face-background 'org-block-background "plum2") > > in your init file. > > This results in: "set-face-attribute: Invalid face: > org-block-background" > > -- > mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML to Org-mode: > > get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs < > > https://github.com/novoid/extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode + more on > github > > >