solarized has different background color whether in terminal or MacVim

[kevinburke]

Any idea why the background is showing up in the terminal as brown? I don't have any has('gui_running') conditionals in my .vimrc.

Here's a screenshot: https://skitch.com/kburke/fc3sd/2-vim

The left screen is with background set to dark, in the Terminal. The bottom right is with background set to light. The top right is MacVim and has the correct background color.

Kevin

[cdlm]

Looks you're getting the 16-color palette in a terminal that does not have the correct colors set. It's a known hitch, feel free to peruse the few closed issues here that discuss it.

In short, either change your iTerm profile to work in 256 color mode (e.g. setting terminal type to xterm-256color), or load & pick the solarized color theme.

[kevinburke]

kevinburke-macbookpro:2 kevinburke$ env | grep term TERM=xterm-256color kevinburke-macbookpro:2 kevinburke$ vi file.txt

and it's back into brown mode - I'm not sure what's going on.

[norm2782]

Same for me:

λ .vim → λ git master* → echo $TERM xterm-256color

iTerm2 Report Terminal Type also says xterm-256color

These are my vim settings:

syntax enable let g:solarized_termcolors = 256 set background=dark colorscheme solarized

[norm2782]

A fix:

• Get iTerm2
• Make sure you have xterm-256color selected
• Get iTerm2 Solarized: https://github.com/altercation/solarized/tree/master/iterm2-colors-solarized
• Use one of the solarized themes in iTerm2
• Use the following config in vim:

syntax enable set background=dark colorscheme solarized

Note the missing solarized_termcolors line.

[rogeriopvl]

I wonder if anyone got this working without using solarized in iterm2?

I have exactly the same problem. I have the correct syntax highlight but the background is brown.

[NewAlexandria]

I made a patch to my fork to handle the MacVim problem. I also incorporated code from @codehugger and asked him for a pull request.

I found these things solve the problem here.