Emacs 24客户端无法正确加载颜色主题

Question

I want to use the color theme solarized-light. It works just fine if I do (load-theme 'solarized-light t) , however I am having issues with having it load automatically.

If I simply add (load-theme 'solarized-light t) to my .emacs, the color theme won't load properly. Some of the colors are applied but others aren't, I assume this is because it's not running in a GUI so it assumes the terminal can't support the colors or something.

Logically, I tried putting the call to load the theme in the after-make-frame-functions variable. I thought that if it only tries to load the theme after I'm already in a GUI, then it should work right?

It doesn't. When I create the first frame the same thing happens with the terminal and the colors aren't loaded properly. However, if I make another frame while I already have one open then it works properly.

Is there any way to apply the theme properly when I make the first frame, or even before that if possible?

I'm on Arch Linux running Emacs 24.3.1 as a daemon . In case this behavior is tied to the window manager, I've tried it in both StumpWM and Openbox and it doesn't work in either.

Edit :

As a temporary workaround I have made a command in my .stumpwmrc that runs the shell command emacsclient --eval "(load-theme 'solarized-light t)" after making the frame. This works but it doesn't answer my original question (nor is it likely to help people with other window managers).

Answer 1

add

(package-initialize)
(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)

to the top of your .emacs file. then set the them from Mx customize-groups: themes, select theme in the menu and save to your .emacs file, also disable foreground and background from default faces group. restart emacs or Mx eval-buffers to check.