Is it possible to change the scrollbar color in emacs? (Note: Not XEmacs)
If it matters, I'm running emacs 22 on Ubuntu 8.10.
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A:
Shamelessly taken from the FAQ for XEmacs
Here's a recap of how to use resources to change your scrollbar colors:
! Motif scrollbars
Emacs*XmScrollBar.Background: skyblue
Emacs*XmScrollBar.troughColor: lightgray
! Athena scrollbars
Emacs*Scrollbar.Foreground: skyblue
Emacs*Scrollbar.Background: lightgray
Note the capitalization of Scrollbar for the Athena widget.
Dan Esparza
2008-12-08 21:51:46
That doesn't seem to work for me. I'm running the latest version of Ubuntu (8.10) and the latest version of emacs (22.2.1). Any other suggestions?
mike
2008-12-08 21:57:54
Does that only work in XEmacs?
mike
2008-12-08 23:13:26
Charlie asks a good question: What environment are you in? To answer your question -- yes, I think that only works for XEmacs (sorry for my assumption)
Dan Esparza
2008-12-09 16:07:15
A:
In what environment? In, eg, Carbon EMACS, the scrollbar widgets come from the carbon native set; if so, you can't really change the color.
Charlie Martin
2008-12-08 22:04:34
A:
See the Emacs Wiki Site for info about ScrollBars
To Quote from the site:
GnuEmacs can draw its own “native” scroll bars, which are quite customizable. In my opinion, this also gives the best results for users of ColorTheme. Details follow:
Build GnuEmacs with the following options passed to ./configure:
--without-toolkit-scroll-bars --with-x-toolkit=noThen try a ColorTheme, or:
M-x customize-face RET scroll-bar RETYou can set the foreground/background colors, border color/width, etc. There is a separate variable called scroll-bar-width.
Andrew Cox
2008-12-16 15:52:24
But what if I am dealing with a pre-built emacs in an installation I can't control?
Arkadiy
2009-07-23 19:47:32
try a `M-x describe-variable ret system-configuration-options ret` if it doesn't have the above the settings it doesn't look like you can!
Andrew Cox
2009-07-23 20:20:31