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zemke

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[SOLVED] appres warning: Color name "BACKGROUND" is not defined

Hi,

yesterday I did a fresh install of arch linux. For some reason xorg(?) does not replace BACKGROUND, FOREGROUND, WINDOW_BACKGROUND, and WINDOW_FOREGROUND by color hex values. appres issues the warning "Color name "BACKGROUND" is not defined" and emacs won't start (unless you use -nw, of course). xrdb -query reveals that only XWp*XmTextField*background has the meaningful value #FFFFFFFFFFFF.

Any ideas?

Last edited by zemke (2017-08-11 07:05:54)

Meskarune

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Re: [SOLVED] appres warning: Color name "BACKGROUND" is not defined

Can you post your .Xresources and also double check you don't have trailing spaces or typos?

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zemke

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Re: [SOLVED] appres warning: Color name "BACKGROUND" is not defined

I do not have an ~/.Xresources file. The only .X* file on the computer is ~/.Xauthority in /root and in my home directory. In the meantime I found a "solution": I unchecked the box in colors saying "apply colors to non-QT programs" (or similar, I did install the German version), logout/login, and emacs starts w/o any problems.

On my old computer running the same version of arch (w/ updates from previous versions) emacs runs w/o problems with the box still checked, the colors of the theme (currently breeze dark) are inherited by emacs. I would be interested in knowing why the behaviour differs on the updated and the fresh install. My main problem was a non-working emacs, so I mark this thread as [SOLVED].

Thank you.

Last edited by zemke (2017-08-11 07:10:10)

Meskarune

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Re: [SOLVED] appres warning: Color name "BACKGROUND" is not defined

How did you install Arch Linux?

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angelo

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Re: [SOLVED] appres warning: Color name "BACKGROUND" is not defined

Accidental double post - deleted.

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angelo

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Re: [SOLVED] appres warning: Color name "BACKGROUND" is not defined

I had the same problem.

If running KDE the solution above works.
Otherwise, running "xrdb /dev/null" seems to work.
See https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=49498

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] appres warning: Color name "BACKGROUND" is not defined

Thanks for sharing, however as this thread is a year old and solved, im going to close this.

Please don't make a habit of necrobumping https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing.

Last edited by V1del (2018-05-09 19:15:12)