Re: night-mode?

[Jean Louis]

* Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> [2020-11-23 20:07]:
> > Now I can change to any built-in theme and it needs 2-3 seconds
> > to accommodate the eyes and I am fine. But I do not change my default
> > face, so more or less only colors change.
> Isn't that what I am talking about :-). Brain needs a bit of time to
> adapt.

Alright. I know what you feel as some time back I was more stressed
with the theme change, not just that I could not adapt after 2-3
seconds, I could not adapt at all and I would even delete the
theme. This personal behavior changed into being adaptable to built-in
themes and not wasting time with any external themes.

Guess what, now is night, lights are on, and I use plain white
background that stubbornly contradicts the meaning of night-mode.

> > I would be using more EXWM if there would be no swapping
> > problems or maybe memory leaks preventing me to use long sessions,
> > bugs which are now being researched.
> 
> Indeed, I would really like to have everythign in same process, so I
> could C-x C-b between other X11 windows just as I can between Emacs
> buffers, but I am affraid of Emacs locking me out of desktop.

EXWM works just well. One need to know that external programs should
be launched with M-& and not with M-! as that would block. In general
I can watch embeded video within Emacs session and move that buffer to
something else when I fish, screen can be tiled as Emacs is tiled.

Desktop I do not know what is meaning of it, I know that people use
Windows to place stuff on virtual desktop. I protest against the
automatic creation of ~/Desktop in my file system and it is empty
directory I delete from time to time. Do you mean that?

Either I am using IceWM that has no icons on the root screen, or I use
EXWM. For icons on the root screen I can use rox filer with option -p
and with it I can have unlimited desktop settings if desktop means
ordered directories or files on the root screen.
> 
> > Good, only that I do not have efficiency, I am mostlyu using T410 or
> > T400 Thinkpad and maybe that is why. It is fast on desktop.
> If you use an old laptop, shouldn't you bee worried about efficiency
> even more? I mean as few extras and as tiny things as you can? My
> current emacs init starts in around ~0.2 secs. 

For you is old, for me is just fine. I am worried of programs being
developed in such a way that I have to have faster and faster computer
to run them. Terrible condition. I would buy some new laptop would it
be possible to liberate the BIOS from non-free software.