Emacs 28 pgtk and background color in .Xresources file

kamui78 · 2022-02-04 03:26

Hi, I have compiled and installed Emacs 28 pgtk. When I start Emacs it changes the background color three times. First it starts gray, then it turns white and then finally my theme color, which is a dark gray (from Nord color palette). My previous version, Emacs 27, honored the .Xresources and would start with the same color of my theme. I have tried running 'xrdb -merge .Xresources' before running Emacs. It did not help. I am running Emacs inside i3wm, which uses xorg. Everything else runs fine. Is it possible that Emacs-pgtk does not honor the .Xresources anymore? Do you think it is a bug?

adouzzy · 2022-02-04 05:14

Pgtk is meant for Wayland not X11. You might be running under Wayland natively as designed. No X11 anymore.

kamui78 · 2022-02-04 09:37

I should have stated that in the post. I am running Emacs inside the i3wm, which relies on xorg. Since it Emacs compiled with --with-pgtk option runs under xorg I expected it to be backwards compatible. My guess was wrong apparently.

adouzzy · 2022-02-04 09:44

You can use an env variable to force Emacs to run under X11. I tried that before. Can not thing of it on top of my head. Google either Emacs or gtk

cradlemann · 2022-02-04 22:52

>Is it possible that Emacs-pgtk does not honor the .Xresources anymore? Yes, it honor gtk settings only now. All x related code was replaced to gtk analogues. So you need to configure either GTK theme or emacs theme.