Just spent more than an hour trying to figure out how in the heck my Emacs config was having a different set of colors in my Qubes VMs than on my actual Fedora system. The answer was in a relic from my ancient set of dotfiles. I did not bring my .Xresources/.Xdefaults along for the ride this time, and those were in fact responsible for the non-powerline theme elements. The last time I thought I cared about these files was probably a decade ago!
Having found the source of confusion, I went ahead and read the elisp for my airline theme which I probably should have done in the first place. This made it clear that I could load a regular theme first, and then load the airline theme after to get the best of both worlds. So, now I’m happily working with base16-irblack and airline-minimalist.
This all works great with my init.el available in both my Fedora and Debian TemplateVMs so any AppVM I spin in #QubesOS is a few seconds away from bliss
