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This section describes commands for altering the display style and window management behavior of the selected frame.
Note that this auto-raise feature is implemented by Emacs itself. Some
window managers also implement auto-raise. If you enable auto-raise for
Emacs frames in your X window manager, it should work, but it is beyond
Emacs's control and therefore auto-raise-mode
has no effect on
it.
The command auto-lower-mode
has no effect on auto-lower
implemented by the X window manager. To control that, you must use
the appropriate window manager features.
default
face (see Faces). For example, if the principal font
has a height of 12 pt, all text will be drawn in 12 pt fonts, unless you
use another face that specifies a different height. See Font X, for
ways to list the available fonts on your system.
You can also set a frame's principal font through a pop-up menu. Press S-Mouse-1 to activate this menu.
In Emacs versions that use an X toolkit, the color-setting and font-setting functions don't affect menus and the menu bar, since they are displayed by their own widget classes. To change the appearance of the menus and menu bar, you must use X resources (see Resources). See Colors, regarding colors. See Font X, regarding choice of font.
Colors, fonts, and other attributes of the frame's display can also
be customized by setting frame parameters in the variable
default-frame-alist
(see Creating Frames). For a detailed
description of frame parameters and customization, see Frame Parameters.
[1] See the X Window System documentation for more details. On a typical GNU or Unix system, the command man 7 X or man -s 7 X will display the X manual page that explains how to specify colors.