Neovim `colorscheme vim` doesn't match actual vim colorscheme nor terminal colors

[cosmicAligator]

Whilst setting up a new computer running arch using the larbs script I found that the nvim colors did not appear as I recall them appearing on previous installs (I installed larbs on my primary machine at the start of this year and the colors in nvim are correct on there still). I installed vim and saw that the colors in vim were as I remember them. I checked that the line "colorscheme vim" is in ~/.config/nvim/init.vim and yet still the nvim colorscheme isn't the same as vim nor the system. I have not installed pywal. I have tried both leaving the gruvbox colorscheme commented out and uncommented in ~/.config/x11/xresources and neither changed the issue. I also tried both commenting and uncommenting the line "xrdb ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/x11/xresources & xrdbpid=$!" in ~/.xprofile which also made no change even after rebooting.

The correct terminal colors appear to be set as they show when running neofetch. After searching online I am still at a loss as to what could be causing this issue given that it is a fresh install of both arch and larbs. Any help/advice would be much appreciated!

Ps. I attached screenshot with nvim on top left and vim on bottom left

[TheYellowArchitect]

There was a recent commit here which (succesfully?) addressed the bad color scheme.

As for my own setup on noticing the vim color was unlike the one I had by default in the past? On vimconfig file you have opened, I added colorscheme slate (you can add any colorscheme you want) then to make it transparent background: hi Normal guibg=NONE ctermbg=NONE

[cosmicAligator]

I just read through https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice/pull/1413 and I have confirmed that all the changes made there are in my configs as I am working with a fresh install of larbs. It unfortunately does not resolve the issue. I appreciate the workaround @TheYellowArchitect and that does work for me to remove the bg from the preinstalled colorschemes which is nice.

However, the primary issue still stands and it also affects colors that are generated with pywal since from my understanding the way that pywal colors are applied to vim and nvim is through the colors-wal.vim file pywal creates in ~/.cache/wal which do get applied to vim, but for some reason not nvim even when colorscheme vim is set (see attached where the only difference is I ran wal --theme <path_to_personal_theme>). Whilst a small issue, it does mean that nvim doesn't match the rest of the system which is mildly annoying.

I also tried creating ~/.config/nvim/colors, moving the colors-wal.vim there and then manually calling the colorscheme, however this didn't work at all. My only other idea at this stage is that nvim doesn't like the syntax in colors-wal.vim and that I could just manually create a color scheme by replacing the colors in an existing scheme or smth.

[lp-35]

same issue here, i "fixed" it by downloading the xresources colorscheme made by nekonako and then adding the following lines in my init.vim to get the theme with transparent background:

Plug 'nekonako/xresources-nvim'

[...]

colorscheme xresources hi Normal guibg=NONE ctermbg=NONE

make sure to put the lines in this order, or else it wont work

[BEST8OY]

@TheYellowArchitect Yeah, I too still have the problem! With that particular version I mentioned in my PR it was fixed and then suddenly it wasn't in the next release!