Permanently override background colour of Emacs theme

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Published on 2012-10-01T09:49:11Z Indexed on 2012/10/01 21:41 UTC
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I want to use the Emacs theme billw, except with a different background colour. I have the following in my .emacs file:

(require 'color-theme)
(color-theme-initialize)
(color-theme-billw)
(set-background-color "gray12")

However this doesn't seem to change the background colour on startup; I need to manually run set-background-color "gray12" in the minibuffer at the beginning of each session.

Any help with this? I tried creating my own custom theme based on the output of color-theme-print but this caused more problems than it's worth...

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