Color theme loading on startup

Color theme loading on startup

[Daniel Hertrich]

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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)

even if I put this line to the end of the .emacs file, the background color of the theme is overridden by something and not applied to the look of Emacs. 
If I load the same theme while Emacs is running using 

M-x load-theme RET cyberpunk RET

it looks good. However, using this method I cannot persist the choice across sessions.

Any ideas what the reason could be?



Also, there is 

M-x color-theme-select

which lists different themes than load-theme. Is this method better? How to  load such themes through .emacs correctly?
E.g. I like the theme „Deep Blue“ listed there, but putting 
(color-theme-select ‚deep_blue)
into the .emacs file doesn’t have any effect. However, I don’t know if that’s the correct lisp-compatible name of the theme. How to know what it is?
And where are new themes for this method installed to? As far as I understood, both methods take different format theme files? 


Thanks!
Daniel


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Re: Color theme loading on startup

[Eric S Fraga]

On Wednesday,  8 Jul 2015 at 14:08, Daniel Hertrich wrote:
> 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)

[...]

I am not sure what causes the behaviour you see but I can say that I use
the following sequence to set the particular colour theme I want:

    (require 'color-theme)
    (color-theme-initialize)
    (color-theme-blue-sea)

The second line makes all the colour themes available and you can see
them all by M-x color-theme TAB.

-- 
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.1, Org release_8.3beta-1260-gcedef7

Re: Color theme loading on startup

[Daniel Hertrich]

> 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

Re: Color theme loading on startup

[Kaushal]

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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:

>
> > 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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Re: Color theme loading on startup

[Kaushal]

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Daniel,

I reread your answer.

Looks like to are using the theme package cyberpunk (
https://github.com/n3mo/cyberpunk-theme.el ) which is compatible with
load-theme. I got confused because you used the phrase "color theme".

Contrary to what the install instructions say in that theme package's
README page, one should not set the `custom-theme-load-path` variable WHEN
you install the package using the emacs package manager (package.el) and
initialize the packages using `package-initialize`.

If you have set that variable using Customize, erase it using the Customize
interface.

Then `(load-theme 'cyberpunk t nil)` will work.

Check out the below emacs.SE for more detail.

http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/2113/115

--
Kaushal Modi
On Jul 9, 2015 6:23 AM, "Kaushal" <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>> > 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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