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This section describes commands for altering the display style and
window management behavior of the selected frame.
- M-x set-foreground-color RET color RET
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Specify color color for the foreground of the selected frame.
- M-x set-background-color RET color RET
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Specify color color for the background of the selected frame.
This changes the foreground color of the
modeline face also, so
that it remains in inverse video compared with the default.
- M-x set-cursor-color RET color RET
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Specify color color for the cursor of the selected frame.
- M-x set-mouse-color RET color RET
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Specify color color for the mouse cursor when it is over the
selected frame.
- M-x set-border-color RET color RET
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Specify color color for the border of the selected frame.
- M-x list-colors-display
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Display the defined color names and show what the colors look like.
This command is somewhat slow.
- M-x auto-raise-mode
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Toggle whether or not the selected frame should auto-raise. Auto-raise
means that every time you move the mouse onto the frame, it raises the
frame.
Note that this auto-raise feature is implemented by Emacs itself. Some
window managers also implement auto-raise. If you enable auto-raise for
Emacs frames in your X window manager, it should work, but it is beyond
Emacs's control and therefore
auto-raise-mode has no effect on
it.
- M-x auto-lower-mode
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Toggle whether or not the selected frame should auto-lower.
Auto-lower means that every time you move the mouse off the frame,
the frame moves to the bottom of the stack of X windows.
The command
auto-lower-mode has no effect on auto-lower
implemented by the X window manager. To control that, you must use
the appropriate window manager features.
- M-x set-frame-font RET font RET
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Specify font font as the principal font for the selected frame.
The principal font is used for all text displayed in the frame, except
when a face (see section Using Multiple Typefaces) specifies a different font to use for
certain text. See section Font Specification Options, for ways to list the available fonts on
your system.
You can also set a frame's principal font through a pop-up menu.
Press S-Mouse-1 to activate this menu.
In Emacs versions that use an X toolkit, the color-setting and
font-setting functions don't affect menus and the menu bar, since they
are displayed by their own widget classes. To change the appearance of
the menus and menu bar, you must use X resources (see section X Resources).
See section Window Color Options, regarding colors. See section Font Specification Options, regarding choice of
font.
For information on frame parameters and customization, see section `Frame Parameters' in The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual.
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