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I have a hint for leuven which look quite nice, especially the presentation in orgmode, so I've installed with from the package manager.

Since I can't find it in M-x cusomize-themes, I have tried to load it with (load-theme 'leuven) in my .emacs, and this cause emacs -daemon failing to start...

Has anyone ever encountered that problem with leuven theme before ?

Thank you

Nicolas Scotto Di Perto
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  • emacsclient is not starting because you probably have a yes or no prompt blocking it. Try using (load-theme 'leuven :no-confirm) instead. Also note that do not set the customize-theme-load-path variable using the Customize interface -- Source. – Kaushal Modi Jan 11 '16 at 16:20

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I have similar issue before. My understanding is emacs --daemon doesn't try to create a frame. But the theme or face configuration try to wait until the frame is created to apply it.

My current solution is (not perfect):

Add you configuration to after-make-frame-functions hook.

For example:

(defun ec-theme-cfg ()
    ;; put your configuration here)

(add-hook 'after-make-frame-functions #'ec-theme-cfg)

After that change, emacs --daemon can start properly and emacsclient works well.

But there's an issue with this solution, after run emacs --daemon, I have to at least create an Emacs frame (emacsclient -c) before I can use emacsclient -t from terminal.

Enze Chi
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The best way would be to make sure it does appear in your customize-themesmenu, rather than loading it manually via your init file. Leuven appear sin my list of themes (although you can see below I do not use it as default)

Is you can see in the image below, there is the tip at the top

Theme files are named *-theme.el in `custom-theme-load-path'.

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So make sure you have the file saved on that path. To get help with this, try C-h v then custom-theme-load-path, which will show you the current path(s) defined and gives hints on how to customise it.

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  • The path is present in custom-theme-load-path and leuven-theme.el is there... – Nicolas Scotto Di Perto Dec 12 '15 at 19:03
  • It was already, or have you just added the path and file? Restart emacs so the paths are reloaded. Otherwise, without knowing more, I cannot guess as to why customize-themes isn't listing it! Maybe Look inside the file itself for a clue. Alternatively, just place the file in your .emacs.d/ in a folder of your choice, then add that to custom-theme-load-path. Try that anyway, if nothing else works. – n1k31t4 Dec 12 '15 at 19:34
  • Ok I've decided to clean everything and reinstall emacs and now I can see it. While trying to solve my problem, I have learnt more about theme, custom vs color and now I am scared about custom theme ! I just have apply leuven without saving, and after restarting it's still here !

    So to keep emacs clean I guess I don't wan't to try themes and choose THE theme, am I right ? How do you manage your themes ?

     – Nicolas Scotto Di Perto Dec 12 '15 at 20:30
  • After you applied leuven, if it stays there after a restart then I imagine a line was added to your .emacs file, somewhere towards the bottom in custom-set-variables. I haven't played with themes for a while, I just switch between the two that I use manaually, but I do have something like this installed so I have a shortcut to swap between themes too. color-theme is also a nice package for managing themes, but I didn't find a way to include themes that aren't already contained within that package. I use the zero-dark and leuven themes. – n1k31t4 Dec 12 '15 at 22:43
  • @DexterMorgan FYI for color-theme You can just do: (add-to-list 'load-path ".emacs.d/plugins/color-theme/themes/") before (color-theme-initialize) to point the package to a subdirectory full of additional themes. – InHarmsWay Jun 06 '16 at 11:05
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I've had problems with emacs-daemon and themes for a while. I bind this to f5 and just execute it after I open my first frame. Without doing this spacemacs-dark doesn't appear quite right. 

(defun startup-load ()
  "Reload things because Emacs daemon has strange behavior with frames and themes."
  (interactive)
  (resize-frame-small)
  (load-theme 'spacemacs-dark t)
  (theme-setup-set-faces)
  (resize-frame-left))
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