I have seen some solutions to this using linum and nlinum but is there a way to change the background color of the global line numbers mode?
I want to make the line number background the same as my normal background
I want to make the line number background the same as my normal background
By default it is, so you must have previously customized it to be that way (or be using a theme which made that change).
Just M-x customize-group
RET display-line-numbers
RET and edit the faces.