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VIM not using proper colorscheme in tmux

I have referred to this question and I tried many of the changes suggested and it worked for a moment. I updated my Ubuntu machine to latest version and it broke my tmux. lose vim colorscheme in tmux mode

Currently everything works perfectly outside of tmux but the vim in tmux is having problems.

My vimrc :

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'arcticicestudio/nord-vim'
Plug 'fatih/vim-go', { 'do': ':GoUpdateBinaries' }
call plug#end()

set termguicolors
set hlsearch
syntax on
colorscheme nord

I have set these 2 variables in my bashrc

export TERM="xterm-256color"
alias tmux='tmux -2'

One ans suggested to add this set -g default-terminal "xterm" in tmux.conf but adding this loses all the colors in my tmux.

I am using this https://github.com/lemnos/theme.sh for setting colorscheme of my terminal.

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

Solution

  • I recently had this problem myself. When comparing your config files to mine, I have a few more lines than you.

    tmux.conf:

    set -g default-terminal "tmux-256color"
set -ga terminal-overrides ",*256col*:Tc"

    vimrc

    set term=xterm-256color