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On startup I can see the fonts and color scheme before my own are loaded in.

Is it possible to drawing the interface until a certain moment when settings are loaded?

Incase it's important: Linux, GTK3 UI, 26.2 (latest at time of writing)

ideasman42
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  • This sounds like a case where it might be relevant to cite your platform (and your Emacs version). – Drew Feb 08 '19 at 19:40
  • Added this info, although emacs might support it on all platforms. – ideasman42 Feb 09 '19 at 00:01
  • I remember having the same issue on Windows, so I assume it will be the same on any platform with a graphical Emacs. Color themes are the worst offenders here, as I get this problem even with Emacs in a terminal. I have no clue whether there's a way to solve this, as I assume it would require making changes to code that loads the init file, which is quite invasive. –  Feb 09 '19 at 10:30

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The initial frame is created before your ~/.emacs file is read, so it necessarily uses the default "theme" first and only later updates to the appearance you chose.

In Emacs-27, you can customize appearance in ~/.emacs.d/early-init.el which is loaded before the GUI is initialized, which should avoid this problem. [ Of course, since it's loaded before the GUI is setup, it can't do GUI-dependent operations. It doesn't even know if a GUI will be used at all. ]

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