Lighter background on terminal

[greduan]

The background color is significantly darker in the GUI version compared to the terminal version. I hope it's just a quick patch. :)

Also remember to update the TODO list in the README file. ;)

MacVim:

Terminal:

EDIT:
Also I just noticed the line colors are different for both versions as well. Might want to look into that. ;)

[morhetz]

Well, I suppose, it's something wrong with your term settings. You're using iterm2, aren't you? Try setting "Minimal Contrast" slider to low (far left). I don't have a Mac nearby right now, but AFAIR it could be found at Preferences -> Profiles -> Colors. This should work.

[greduan]

It is already at the lowest contrast. :/

[morhetz]

Hmm, that's strange. What's your "Report terminal type" at Terminal properties, "xterm-256color"?

[greduan]

Yep. :)

[morhetz]

Crap, the case which I don't have a resolution for. That should be something with iTerm's color space (see [1], [2], [3]).
Well, since it's common problem I should probably redefine colors in gruvbox_256palette_osx.sh to make it more accurate. The bad thing it would be correct for iTerm only, not for Terminal.app. Gimmie about a week to get my hands on.

[greduan]

No problem. Take your time. :) Maybe you can make an iTerm specific version?

[morhetz]

I probably should. Meanwhile could you test this stuff on Terminal.app just to be sure it's iTerm only case?

[greduan]

It does have a dark background in Terminal. :/

[morhetz]

So lighter background is iTerm-specific problem only and with Terminal.app background color matches MacVim's one, right?
Not sure if I understood you correctly

[greduan]

That is correct. However the rest of the colors look off in Terminal, for some reason. :/

I think testing will be a long process on this one. :/

[morhetz]

Hmm. Looks like gruvbox_256palette_osx.sh doesn't work for Terminal.app at all; so it falls back to incorrect 256-color palette. One more reason to use iTerm2 instead :)
Thanks for all your reports! I'll report progress as soon as I'll get my hands on Mac.

[greduan]

No problem! Whenever you need me for testing I'm here. :)

[dathinaios]

Hey thanks for all the work with this :)

Regarding the iTerm colors, I might be wrong but it seems to me that the effect is the same for all colors (see pic). It just seems that the iTerm colors are a bit washed out...

EDIT: I did a bit of research and it seems that iTerm (and I think Terminal as well) is using the 'calibrated space' instead of the 'device space' for its colors. Don't ask me what that means, I have no idea.... Here are some links in case you find them useful:

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/29487/is-it-possible-to-disable-terminals-automatic-tweaking-of-colors-in-lion
https://github.com/altercation/solarized/tree/master/iterm2-colors-solarized
https://code.google.com/p/iterm2/issues/detail?id=1507

[dathinaios]

Just in case anyone finds it useful..

What I ended up doing is changing the background value by trial and error until I got it close to what I wanted. This is the result:

Left is iTerm2 and right MacVim. The rest of the colors I have actually grown to like better washed out...

If you want to achieve the same result just put the folowing in .zshrc or equivalent and do not call the gruvbox_256palette_osx.sh script. If I recall correctly (I did that a couple of months ago), the only line that is different from the script is echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;235;rgb:20/20/20\a\x1b\\":

echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;236;rgb:32/30/2f\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;234;rgb:1d/20/21\a\x1b\\"

echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;235;rgb:20/20/20\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;237;rgb:3c/38/36\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;239;rgb:50/49/45\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;241;rgb:66/5c/54\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;243;rgb:7c/6f/64\a\x1b\\"

echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;244;rgb:92/83/74\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;245;rgb:92/83/74\a\x1b\\"

echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;229;rgb:fd/f4/c1\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;223;rgb:eb/db/b2\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;250;rgb:d5/c4/a1\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;248;rgb:bd/ae/93\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;246;rgb:a8/99/84\a\x1b\\"

echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;167;rgb:fb/49/34\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;142;rgb:b8/bb/26\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;214;rgb:fa/bd/2f\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;109;rgb:83/a5/98\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;175;rgb:d3/86/9b\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;108;rgb:8e/c0/7c\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;208;rgb:fe/80/19\a\x1b\\"

echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;88;rgb:9d/00/06\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;100;rgb:79/74/0e\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;136;rgb:b5/76/14\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;24;rgb:07/66/78\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;96;rgb:8f/3f/71\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;66;rgb:42/7b/58\a\x1b\\"
echo -ne "\x1bP\x1b]4;130;rgb:af/3a/03\a\x1b\\"

[morhetz]

Doh. I've finally did it. Recent script version needs some testing since it's sh//printf based, but colors should be exactly the same now.