MacOS options do not persist after closing the app.

[ryn1x]

MacOS options do not persist after closing the app. (i.e. changing the theme or font size)

[Shinmera]

I don't understand how theme or font size are "Mac OS options". If you are talking about the Emacs commands to change its theme or frame font, then that's just how Emacs works. If you want to persist a change, put it into the config/user.el file as instructed by the help buffer.

[ryn1x]

I think it may be the way emacs is bundled into the portacle.app on macOS. I have no problems with standard emacs. If I change and save any settings from the tool bar or from the customize emacs "gui" they do not persist. I did have success changing my font and theme by modifying the bundled emacs-init.el though...

[ptrckqnln]

Unfortunately I'm having this issue with the latest version.

[pawel-dubiel]

I have the same problem. Saving theme or font through the GUI on MacOS doesn't work. ( user.el is not modified )

Interesting is that when I use M-x customize-face
the new settings are saved to user.el but on the restart still can't see new settings.

[joebentley]

I'm having the same issue, I have to manually run the custom-set-faces command from user.el for the change to take place

[Shinmera]

The font thingy is due to the way Portacle sets its own font and the way emacs' customisations take precedence. If you use something like

(add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "-GOOG-Noto Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1"))

in your user.el it should work as expected. The font spec used is described here. The 14 is the base size, and GOOG-Noto Mono is the font family. Adapt that as you see fit.

[Shinmera]

Actually now that I look at the code I think I see the problem. Portacle's default window customisations are applied after the user file is loaded. This was changed in some relatively recent patch, I think.

[joebentley]

Yes I was thinking that, since the correct font size kind of briefly flashes up before it is reverted to the incorrect setting

[pawel-dubiel]

I am new to emacs and I had a problem to make this work, but finally, it works for me.

• applied Shinmera path portacle/emacsd@b21ec3a
• (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "Noto Mono-13:antialias=subpixel")) in user.el
• removed portacle-user.elc and remove portacle.elc
• then open portacle and recompile everything withC-u 0 M-x byte-recompile-directory

It could be that one of these steps wasn't required, but now it works for me.

[Shinmera]

Instead of manually applying the patch, removing the elcs, and byte-recompiling, you could've also just done M-x portacle-update

[pawel-dubiel]

@Shinmera Thanks, that's really good trick :) I'should have scanned for such commands first.