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Quick troubleshooting for Solarized broken colors in tmux

1 min readNov 18, 2015

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After installing the Solarized color scheme for VIM and iTerm2 I realized that when running VIM from tmux the colors were broken. Fortunately my solution was as simple as creating on my home directory a .tmux.conf file and adding this line:

set -g default-terminal “screen-256color”

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Now I can enjoy this color scheme =).

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Example of JS code with Solarized color scheme

However it might not be so simple for you. For more solutions or further details I suggest you to check this Github issue.

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