tmux vim colorscheme background is not showing I have installed tmux but now text mode vim colorschemes do not fill the background colour properly. Here is how it looks with colorscheme xoria256 in the normal Ubuntu 14.10 terminal: !enter image description here And here when I run it in the exact same terminal after tmux: !enter image description here So as you can see the desktop is showing through anywhere where there is no text in vim. I have a 256 color terminal. My .tmux.conf: ~ cat .tmux.conf set -g mode-mouse on set -g default-terminal "screen-256color" and I have a 256 colour terminal: ~ tput colors 256 How do I get tmux to work properly with vim 256-colour colorschemes which work fine in the normal terminal?

This happens when `TERM` isn’t set to the correct `screen[-256color]` in Vim’s environment, usually by some shell startup script. If that is the case – for example, you have a


TERM=xterm-256color


, either remove it or make sure it checks the original value of `TERM` before changing it, e.g.


if [[ "$TERM" = xterm ]]; then
TERM=xterm-256color
fi