Daniel, I reread your answer.
Looks like to are using the theme package cyberpunk ( https://github.com/n3mo/cyberpunk-theme.el ) which is compatible with load-theme. I got confused because you used the phrase "color theme". Contrary to what the install instructions say in that theme package's README page, one should not set the `custom-theme-load-path` variable WHEN you install the package using the emacs package manager (package.el) and initialize the packages using `package-initialize`. If you have set that variable using Customize, erase it using the Customize interface. Then `(load-theme 'cyberpunk t nil)` will work. Check out the below emacs.SE for more detail. http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/2113/115 -- Kaushal Modi On Jul 9, 2015 6:23 AM, "Kaushal" <kaushal.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > Daniel, > > What version of emacs are you on? > > color-theme is a very old style of setting themes. I believe load-theme > will not work for color themes. > > Check out this recent answer on emacs.SE for more detail: > http://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/13825/115 > > -- > Kaushal Modi > On Jul 9, 2015 3:44 AM, "Daniel Hertrich" <daniel@daniel-hertrich.photo> > wrote: > >> >> > Am 09.07.2015 um 04:45 schrieb Samuel W. Flint <swfl...@flintfam.org>: >> > >> > Daniel Hertrich <daniel@daniel-hertrich.photo> writes: >> > >> >> Hi guys, >> >> >> >> quick question, as I don’t really see any root cause for this: >> >> Whenever I try to load a color theme directly from .emacs using >> >> load-theme, e.g. >> >> >> >> (load-theme 'cyberpunk) >> > >> > Try ~(load-theme 'cyberpunk t nil)~. That should work. >> >> Unfortunately it doesn’t. It has the same effect as without the „t nil“, >> background color is not applied. >> >> Daniel >> >> >> >>
