theme and font settings don't work starting emacs as a daemon

[systemcrafters]

theme and font settings don't work starting emacs as a daemon

[fnt400]

Yes!!! That did the trick! I was using the function set-face-attribute, instead of custom-set-faces.
Thank you very much!!

[jeffbowman]

@fnt400 Try setting those in the rational-emacs/early-config.el file. See if that helps.

In general, setting fonts and frame based configuration in early-init (or early-config.el in the case of rational-emacs), is a better idea because they get set before the frame exists so the springy resizing thing does not happen when the frame becomes visible. In daemon mode, that should help with getting the emacs client frame looking the way you want.

[fnt400]

@fnt400 Try setting those in the rational-emacs/early-config.el file. See if that helps.
thankyou for the advice. I tried but it didn't work. The font do not change when starting as a daemon.
The theme setting, instead, gives an error because it can't find the theme itself (probably it can be fixed adding a load-path but I didn't try)

[jeffbowman]

@fnt400 The reason you are seeing the blue color has to do with the default configuration in the rational-emacs early-init.el file, specifically these 2 lines:

https://github.com/SystemCrafters/rational-emacs/blob/master/early-init.el#L29-L30

which set the default foreground and background colors.

In your rational-config-path/early-config.el you need to add this configuration to get rid of it:

(setf default-frame-alist (assq-delete-all 'background-color default-frame-alist))
(setf default-frame-alist (assq-delete-all 'foreground-color default-frame-alist))

Then your code to load a theme like this (load-theme 'modus-vivendi t) (probably in your rational-config-path/config.el file) should work.

[fnt400]

Great! Now the theme starts correctly! Unfortunately the font setting doesn't. I still have to set it manually when I create the first frame (but that's not a big problem).

[jeffbowman]

This is what my early-config.el file has. the font gets set correctly as does the theme. Does this help you?

https://gist.github.com/jeffbowman/7d0e20df9321aaa28468c2a32503d322