set background=dark not doing anything

[nathanielks]

I've toggle set background between dark and light, and it keeps defaulting to light... here's a screenshot:

http://cl.ly/KjtU

And my terminal settings:

http://cl.ly/KjgG

Terminal has been declared as xterm-256color. Any ideas?

[philipphoffmann]

I'm using the same settings except colorscheme solarized comes before set background=dark maybe that helps?

[zzuhan]

same problem may be it affected by the terminal. it shows different colors in terminal and iterm2

[greduan]

I don't have this problem... Are you sure that the set background=dark line is before the colorscheme solarized line? Does this help: https://github.com/KevinGoodsell/vim-color-check/blob/master/color-scheme-recommendations.txt#L131

[althalus]

I had this same problem this morning, tracked it down to another plugin causing the problem - csapprox

[mz496]

I know this is ancient, but I recently ran into this issue when using an old version of Vim (7.4). Upgrading to 8.1 solved the problem, as hinted by "a bug in Vim" described in the guide linked earlier (https://github.com/KevinGoodsell/vim-color-check/blob/master/color-scheme-recommendations.txt#L131)