Re: how to set background color for vim terminal

On 16:15 Mon 28 Aug , Bram Moolenaar wrote:
>
> Lifepillar wrote:
>
> > On 28/08/2017 00:13, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > >
> > > Marcin Szamotulski wrote:
> > >
> > >> I was looking how to set up background color for the `:termainal` (on
> > >> linux). I cannot find proper documentation on how to adjust libvterm.
> > >
> > > The program you run in the terminal can change the background.
> > > Otherwise the same background as Vim is used.
> > >
> > > Note that on Mac it appears to be impossible to set the background color
> > > to white. That's a problem with Terminal.app.
> >
> > In both Terminal.app and iTerm2 with notermguicolors, the terminal
> > background is set to Vim's background, as you say. Not all of the 256
> > colors look right, though. Attached you find a screenshot: the
> > colorscheme is Solarized 8, although the particular colorscheme should
> > not matter. See how a few of the 256 colors are out of place, and also
> > a shade of gray is wrong. Of the system colors, Normal White (color 7)
> > and Bright Black (color 8) are grey instead of Solarized white
> > (#EEE8D5) and Solarized black (#333344), respectively. Note that this
> > is what I see also in iTerm2, so this does not appear to be
> > a terminal-specific problem (or, both terminals have the same issue).
>
> Color 7 is supposed to be grey, but color 15 is supposed to be white.
> You can try this with:
> :hi Normal ctermbg=15
>
> Has nothing to do with the terminal feature. This is with t_Co set to
> 256, which should be correct for Terminal.app.
>
> > In iTerm2 with termguicolors, the terminal does not seem to inherit
> > the colorscheme's colors, but it appears to always use default colors
> > (the 256 color palette looks right in this case). In particular, the
> > background is always white or black, depending on the value of
> > 'background' at the moment the terminal is started. See the other two
> > attachments. This is also what I see in MacVim.
> >
> > Finally, I have tried NeoVim's terminal for comparison, and colors
> > appear to look right under all circumstances. So, it is definitely not
> > "impossible" to correctly set all the 16 system colors (but, maybe,
> > NeoVim is doing something hackish?).

I can confirm that with the guitermcolors option indeed the only
background colour I see is black or white.

Best regards,
Marcin

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