Emacs Init: Set Background Color

By Xah Lee. Date: 2024-08-18. Last updated: 2024-11-04.

To set background color, Alt+x set-background-color then type “honeydew”.

This is much simpler than setting a Color Theme.

put this in your Emacs Init File:

(when (display-graphic-p)
  (push '(background-color . "honeydew") default-frame-alist))

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