Blue background in iTerm on MacOS El Capitan

[Marschelloss]

I get the known blue background in any Terminal App on MacOS El Capitan (tested on multiple devices). $TERM is set to xterm-256color. In iTerm2 i also set the colorsheme to dracula but i still get the blue background.

[apierz]

This is not a perfect solution, but it works fairly well.

comment out
(bg1 #282a36)

in the list of color definitions and add

(if (display-graphic-p) (setq bg1 "#282a36") (setq bg1 "#000000"))

between

(deftheme dracula)

and

(let ((class '(class color) (min-colors 89)))

This checks to see if you are using on a graphical display. If so, it sets the bg color to the standard Dracula color, if not (like when you are in a terminal) it sets it to plain black. Unfortunately, I think black is the closest color to the standard Dracula background in the 256 color set. Other colors I have tried all end up looking like the blue in your screen shot.

I think something like this is the best solution, but because it adds a new color I don't want to issue a pull request for it unless whoever is in charge of that says it's ok.

[apierz]

Using

(if (display-graphic-p) (setq bg1 "#282a36") (setq bg1 nil))

works even better. This will have terminal Emacs use your default terminal background, so if you have Dracula for iTerm installed it will use that color instead of turning blue.

[pauley-unsaturated]

Should someone create a PR for this?

[film42]

Just wanted to ping this thread about the open PR around this: #15

[benreyn]

With #19 in, I think we can close this now?

[benreyn]

Trying this out locally, it looks like the fix in #19 did resolve this issue when starting a new emacs session via emacs --no-window-system from the terminal, but this is still and issue when connecting to a running emacs server from the terminal using emacsclient --tty