Theme requires changing and then back again

[max-sixty]

Description :octocat:

Spacemacs requires changing to a different theme and back to original theme in order to show the correct theme.

When I launch Spacemacs, it launches with a color scheme that doesn't match the one selected:

When I select a different theme (SPC T s), and then revert to the original theme, it then shows the correct theme (you can see the background is a different color):

This is over an ssh (not -X / -Y) connection on CentOS6

Edit: after posting this I realize it looks extremely marginal. For whatever reason, it's much more impactful when using, to the extent that it's difficult to read some dark text. I can find better examples if helpful; hopefully this at least shows something is happening

Reproduction guide :beetle:

Unfortunately this is likely a connection-specific issue; I don't think this is easily reproducible. If it doesn't ring any bells for anyone, feel free to close.

The theme is solarized-wombat-dark, given that's the theme that seems to look best over an SSH connection.

Thanks for such a superb ~product!~ thing!

[charlag]

No matter what I do, I can't get background to be light, powerline, helm and buttons change, background doesn't. I'm lost.

(also Spacemacs if awesome but not really a "product" :wink:)

[charlag]

My dotspacemacs/emacs-custom-settings had custom-set-faces twice, I commented out both and it works now.

[max-sixty]

Please close this issue.

?

[max-sixty]

In case the original issue seems overly specific, there seems to be a legitimate general issue: why would changing to a different theme and then back again cause colors to change? I have no other colors set in my dotfile.

[duianto]

I don't have centOS or a server to SSH to.

But in PopOS 20.04, when Spacemace is started in the terminal: emacs -nw with the first theme in dotspacemacs/themes set to: solarized-wombat-dark

Then the background color becomes slightly darker after switching to another theme SPC T s and back to solarized-wombat-dark

Before

After

But I see no color changes with these five themes that I've tested:

zenburn
phoenix-dark-mono
twilight
solarized-dark
solarized-gruvbox-dark

You mentioned that there are better examples. But since it isn't happening with every theme. Then maybe the issue is theme specific.

PopOS 20.04 (click to expand)

#### System Info :computer:
- OS: gnu/linux
- Emacs: 26.3.50
- Spacemacs: 0.300.0
- Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. 5fcd84d84)
- Graphic display: nil
- Distribution: spacemacs
- Editing style: vim
- Completion: helm
- Layers:
‘‘‘elisp
(auto-completion command-log emacs-lisp fasd git helm lsp markdown multiple-cursors
                 (org :variables org-agenda-files
                      ’("~/org/notes.org"))
                 ranger
                 (shell :variables shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position ’bottom)
                 spell-checking syntax-checking themes-megapack treemacs version-control)
‘‘‘
- System configuration features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS FREETYPE XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS

[lebensterben]

Reopen in case anyone want to fix it.

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