Background becomes grey

[dracula]

Background becomes grey

[dsifford]

You're likely using a terminal that doesn't have truecolor support.

The BEST solution is to find a better terminal. But the solution I think you're personally looking for is to set the variable let g:dracula_colorterm = 0 in your init scripts before loading the colorscheme.

Let me know if that helps.

[dsifford]

Add set termguicolors to your vimrc

[dsifford]

Also, you'll need to set let g:dracula_italic = 0 to make those blue highlights go away. Your terminal also does not support italic fonts (or you have tmux set up incorrectly and they're not being rendered)

[Knowledge-Wisdom-Understanding]

You're likely using a terminal that doesn't have truecolor support.

The BEST solution is to find a better terminal. But the solution I think you're personally looking for is to set the variable let g:dracula_colorterm = 0 in your init scripts before loading the colorscheme.

Let me know if that helps.

omg omg this worked hooray!!!!! I'm using ohmyzsh + ohmytmux + amix/vimrc + tilix terminal and nothing seemed to work. but this. this worked. : ) 👍 💯

[yzgyyang]

Right on, now it worked.. Thanks again for the help! @dsifford

[yzgyyang]

Worked like a charm, thank you @dsifford for the solution and explanation. I only knew about xterm-256color before and never realized the truecolor and italic settings for multiple terminals like iTerm and gnome-terminal.

Sorry again for a newbie question!

[yzgyyang]

@dsifford As I try to configure my terminal (iTerm2 v3.1.7), I found out that those values are already:

➜  ~ echo $TERM
xterm-256color
➜  ~ echo $COLORTERM
truecolor

Do you have any insights about what has possibly gone wrong here?

[yzgyyang]

A test script also indicates that I already have truecolor support in my terminal: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robertknight/konsole/master/tests/color-spaces.pl

[dsifford]

Are you using tmux?

[yzgyyang]

Are you using tmux?

I am not.

[pqks]

Add set termguicolors to your vimrc

This works on xfce-terminal. @dsifford i have a question, set termguicolors What exactly does it do?

[benknoble]

@pbnanc it asks vim to use GUI-based colors even in the terminal, which can provide "better" color on terminals that support truecolor (I don't have a metric handy for the "better," hence the quotes).

cf. :help termguicolors

[dsifford]

From the help file:

'termguicolors' 'tgc'	boolean (default off)
			global
	When on, uses |highlight-guifg| and |highlight-guibg| attributes in
	the terminal (thus using 24-bit color). Requires a ISO-8613-3
	compatible terminal.