Ubuntu – Colors in Vim via gnome terminal are not the same with gVim

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why is it that the colors when using the color scheme 'blackboard' via Vim in gnome terminal is not the same as when I use the same theme in gVim?
i.e. the background is black while on gVim it's blue and the function names are not colroed etc. Only a few parts of teh code are colored.

Here's my .vimrc

filetype plugin indent on
set number
let &t_Co=256

Also on my Profile Preferences > Colors tab, I got:
Bulit-in Schemes: Green on Black
Built-in schemes: XTerm

Best Answer

Take a look at CSApprox - very good at matching colourschemes (in linux at least - in OSX the default terminal does not have enough colours)

Fairly simple to set up - just configure how many colours are usable by your terminal and put the needed information in your .vimrc

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Using colour schemes with vim and putty

By default, PuTTY presents itself as xterm. The terminfo database, used by various programs to determine the terminal capabilities, says xterm supports eight colors only:

$ infocmp -1L xterm | grep max_colors

This means that even if your version of Xterm does support 256-color mode, programs won't know about it.

The easiest fix is to set your $TERM environment variable to xterm-256color.

(In your ~/.profile, you could use:
if [ "$TERM" = xterm ]; then TERM=xterm-256color; fi)
You can tell PuTTY to always identify itself as xterm-256color, via Configuration → Connection → Data → Terminal-type string.

Note: If you use #1 or #2, and you connect to a server which doesn't have the apropriate terminfo entry, all TUI programs will break.
You can also set the 't_Co' option in vim to 256 to override the terminfo value.
```
if &term == "xterm"
    set t_Co=256
endif
```

Or you could edit the terminfo database.

$ infocmp -L -1 xterm | sed -r 's/(max_colors)#[0-9]+/\1#256/' > /tmp/xterm
$ tic /tmp/xterm

The updated entry will be kept in ~/.terminfo.

256 colors in Vim, OS X Lion

It is unnecessary for you to build Vim. The version of Vim installed with Mac OS X Lion 10.7 includes support for 256 colors. You simply need to install (and select) a color scheme that makes use of the extended color palette, e.g., desert256.

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Using colour schemes with vim and putty

256 colors in Vim, OS X Lion

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