Mercurial > emacs
changeset 35433:1777865bdb98
(Optional Mode Line): Explain how to turn off the 3D appearence of
the mode line.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:59:14 +0000 |
| parents | 297621312676 |
| children | 3299197bb41f |
| files | man/display.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/display.texi Fri Jan 19 16:49:04 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/display.texi Fri Jan 19 16:59:14 2001 +0000 @@ -313,6 +313,30 @@ line. You can customize @code{display-time-mail-face} to make the mail indicator prominent. +@cindex mode line, 3D appearence +@cindex attributes of mode line, changing +@cindex non-integral number of lines in a window + By default, the mode line is drawn on graphics displays as a 3D +released button. Depending on the font used for the mode line's text, +this might make the mode line use more space than a text line in a +window, and cause the last line of the window be partially obscured. +That is, the window displays a non-integral number of text lines. If +you don't like this effect, you can disable the 3D appearence of the +mode line by customizing the attributes of the @code{mode-line} face in +your @file{.emacs} init file, like this: + +@example + (set-face-attribute 'mode-line nil :box nil) +@end example + +@noindent +Alternatively, you could turn off the box attribute in your +@file{.Xdefaults} file: + +@example + Emacs.mode-line.AttributeBox: off +@end example + @node Text Display @section How Text Is Displayed @cindex characters (in text)