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lose vim colorscheme in tmux mode

I'm running iterm2 and when I'm in tmux mode the colorscheme I have set in vim does not show up. Only the color scheme I've set in iterm. If I run vim from shell the colorscheme appears correct - its only when I'm in tmux mode.

I've tried setting :colorscheme molokai when in vim (see screenshot below) and it doesn't change - again, the default colorscheme for iterm2 remains.

Am I missing some setting to iterm or tmux.conf? My dotfles are up on github here.

Solution

  • I had the same problem. Only difference was I am using solarize rather then molokai.

    To fix the issue, I have set up an alias in ~/.bashrc:

    alias tmux="TERM=screen-256color-bce tmux"

    And set up the default-terminal option in ~/.tmux.conf:

    set -g default-terminal "xterm"

    Lastly, do $ source ~/.bashrc to load new alias.