Scimax Elfeed issue: changing the color of feeds

[shrysr]

scimax-elfeed.el has the following snippet for setting the background colors of certain feeds. However, since there is apparently no easy solution to syncing the database across computers, I run this elfeed on a terminal on my VPS. (This has actually worked rather well). Therefore on that machine over ssh - I have to discard the Leuven theme and etc for efficiency and cursor visibility. At the moment these feeds are completely invisible due to the limited terminal colors.

I have tried defining the same snippet with "black", and killing all the elfeed buffers, however there has been no effect. I'm not sure why. Any advice would be appreciated.

(defface python-elfeed-entry
  '((t :background "Darkseagreen1"))
  "Marks a python Elfeed entry.")

(defface emacs-elfeed-entry
  '((t :background "Lightblue1"))
  "Marks a python Elfeed entry.")

(push '(python python-elfeed-entry)
      elfeed-search-face-alist)

(push '(emacs emacs-elfeed-entry)
      elfeed-search-face-alist)

[jkitchin]

what if you set :background to nil? I guess another alternative might be to remove those entries from elfeed-search-face-alist, e.g.

(setq elfeed-search-face-alist (remove '(python python-elfeed-entry) elfeed-search-face-alist)
      elfeed-search-face-alist (remove '(emacs emacs-elfeed-entry) elfeed-search-face-alist))

[shrysr]

Thank you. i will have to check out applying nil instead of black. I've removed the entries for now, and that did work.

[uliw]

I added this to my user.el

(set-face-attribute 'python-elfeed-entry nil :background nil :weight 'normal)
(set-face-attribute 'emacs-elfeed-entry nil :background nil :weight 'normal)
(set-face-attribute 'elfeed-search-unread-title-face nil  :weight 'normal)
(set-face-attribute 'elfeed-search-feed-face nil :height '0.8)