Solved How to get emacs custom themes working?

Dear All

I am running emacs 24.4 in an rxvt terminal. I'd like to use a dark theme (i.e., wombat, which I use in emacs on my macbook). Whatever I do I can't get it to work.

I'm running FreeBSD 10.1 on a thinkpad W530. Window manager is fluxbox.

- The theme is in /usr/local/share/emacs/24.4/etc/themes/
- (nb there is also a /usr/local/share/emacs/24.3/, which has an empty themes/)
- I'm using the same init.el as on my mac, which has the customise block with the following:

Code:
(custom-set-variables
...
'(custom-enabled-themes (quote (wombat)))

- I've tried things like M-x load-theme

Am I missing a package?

NB: might be X-related. I might need to enable full colour range in the terminals.

Any help appreciated.

With thanks and best wishes

Ivan
 
It was an X issue. I just needed to add

Code:
URxvt*termName: xterm-256color

to my .Xdefaults.

Sorry for the false alarm. I'll leave this here in case anyone else trips over the same thing.

Ivan
 
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