XTerm and Xresources weird colors

Lynxrc · 2015-10-13 13:17:58

I generated a nice color sheme with http://terminal.sexy and put it in my Xresources, but I noticed that XTerm had some colors that didn't match the scheme. I tried to change them but none of the color0-color15 settings had any effect.

I even changed every single color to white (and ran xrdb and restarted xterm, tried rebooting too) but the colors are still there: https://i.imgur.com/FQ6Ltvs.png

How can I change these weird colors?

Trilby · 2015-10-13 13:20:44

You showed a screen shot - but that is not of default terminal output. What is the program running? Is that vim? If so, you apparently have syntax highlighting enabled, and some colorscheme set. But what colorscheme? Does the colorscheme use the 16 base colors, or does it use specific values from the 256 color set?

Does this script show the colors you've selected?

Lynxrc · 2015-10-13 14:31:47

Yes, that is vim with syntax highlighting, but it's just a default installation with nothing but a file tree plugin installed. I didn't even know vim had its own color schemes, since it mostly seemed to use the colors from Xresources.

The script does show all the colors.

This is very confusing... When I start vim, it seems to use some of the colors from Xresources but not all of them. If I type ":color", it prints "default", but if I then type ":color default", it changes some colors but it doesn't make any sense. For example if I set every single color to red in Xresources:
- After starting vim: https://i.imgur.com/0XFscCO.png mostly red, but some other colors
- After typing ":color default": https://i.imgur.com/ieZcyad.png everything that wasn't red is now red, but then something else changed to brown...

Can I somehow tell vim to just strictly use my Xresources colors and nothing else?

Trilby · 2015-10-13 20:52:26

Lynxrc wrote:

Yes, that is vim with syntax highlighting, but it's just a default installation with nothing but a file tree plugin installed. I didn't even know vim had its own color schemes

Ah, what? This is not possible. Syntax highlighting is not enabled by default. You must have created a vimrc and added the syntax command. Are you running archlinux?

The reason it is not working in vim the way you want is that the vim color schemes do not all just use the 16 base colors. Create a color scheme that uses your colors and you'll be set.

Lynxrc · 2015-10-14 13:05:51

Sorry, default installation with a file tree plugin and two commands in vimrc for syntax and line numbers.

Anyway, I tried creating a color scheme from scratch but it was way too time consuming so I just ended up downloading one from vimcolors.com.

Thanks for the help!

Arch Linux

#1 2015-10-13 13:17:58

XTerm and Xresources weird colors

#2 2015-10-13 13:20:44

Re: XTerm and Xresources weird colors

#3 2015-10-13 14:31:47

Re: XTerm and Xresources weird colors

#4 2015-10-13 20:52:26

Re: XTerm and Xresources weird colors

#5 2015-10-14 13:05:51

Re: XTerm and Xresources weird colors

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