Colors for menu bar and the scroll bar on emacs 24

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I'd like to change the colours of the menu bar and the scroll bar of emacs 24.

The instructions of EmacsWiki (the above links) do not work. This might be because I am using emacs 24.

According to the page ColorTheme on EmacsWiki, emacs 24 has a new colour system, so I tried some colour themes and to modify them. (Menu bar→Options→Customize Emacs→Custom Themes) But I could not find the faces which I should customise.

Could you tell me how to change the colours of the menu bar and the scroll bar of emacs 24?

Environment: openSUSE 12.3, KDE 4.10.5, Emacs 24.2.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4)

Best Answer

  1. Emacs 24 does not have a new color system. What it has that is new is a Customize interface for custom themes, which are different from but similar to the color themes of library color-theme.el.

  2. I think you mean the mode line and not the menu bar. (To change menu-bar appearance I think the only recourse might be Xresources.)

  3. The faces to customize are these:

    • scroll-bar

    • mode-line

    • mode-line-inactive

    • mode-line-emphasis

    • mode-line-buffer-id

    • mode-line-highlight

You can customize any of these using M-x customize-face. Or you can define a color theme or a custome theme that uses them.

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