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I have Emacs 24.5.1, installed zenburn-theme off of melpa-stable and loaded the theme in my .emacs with (load-theme 'zenburn). I like all the colours except the background. It's a bit too bright.
How do I set the background colour to a darker colour?
You can modify zenburn's face definitions in your .emacs. I use this to avoid mucking up the background of other themes.
(with-eval-after-load "zenburn-theme"
(zenburn-with-color-variables
(custom-theme-set-faces
'zenburn
;; original `(default ((t (:foreground ,zenburn-fg :background ,zenburn-bg))))
`(default ((t (:foreground ,zenburn-fg :background ,zenburn-bg-1)))))))
zenburn-bg-05, zenburn-bg-1, or zenburn-bg-2 for varying shades of darkness.
.emacs with M-x load-file I get the brighter background again? Why could that be happening? (Using emacs --daemon)
Feb 22, 2022 at 4:01
You can change the color of the background by adding this to your .emacs file:
(custom-set-faces
'(default ((t (:background "blue"))))
)
Note, the core bit here is:
'(default ((t (:background "blue"))))
As you might already have custom-set-faces declared if you made any modifications previously.
You might also want to look at the hc-zenburn theme (hc-zenburntheme on MELPA). It probably changes more than just the background, but the darker background is all that I generally notice.
