Solarized-light in iTerm2

[benmezger]

I am having difficulties to get Solarized-dark working in iTerm2.
My Terminal type is set to xterm-256color and I have solarized.iterm loaded as my iTerm2 theme.
In my .emacs I have:

; load solarized-theme
; https://github.com/sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized
(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "~/.emacs.d/solarized")
(load-theme 'solarized t)

This is the result -> https://i.imgur.com/tUwcuDQ.png

If I try M-x -> load-theme -> solarized-dark, I get the same result.

I tried setting my Terminal type to xterm-new, though it "works" I still see some solarized-light in a few parts, like so -> http://i.imgur.com/kHUe95m.png

Any idea of what to do?

Thanks

[sellout]

The solarized-light and solarized-dark themes are deprecated (and I should probably get rid of them to eliminate confusion like this). Now there is only a single solarized theme that uses dark/light variants based on the frame’s background-mode (so you can mix dark and light frames in the same Emacs instance).

The hook I use to set this up (I use light for GUI frames and dark for term frames) is in the README: https://github.com/sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized#all-versions. It could actually be a bit simpler for your case, but I don’t know any way to set default terminal parameters, so you need to make sure your background-mode is set to dark for each new terminal shrug. Let me know if that helps.

[benmezger]

Awesome, I've seen you did a new push on the README.md, thanks for that.
I kinda fixed it by following the README.md, but only by adding:

(add-to-list 'custom-theme-load-path "~/.emacs.d/solarized")
(setq frame-background-mode 'dark)
(load-theme 'solarized-dark t)

This is what I got now -> https://i.imgur.com/nOF426q.png
As you can see in the powerline, it seems that some words are very difficult to read. Any idea what this could be? Perhaps I missed something?

[sellout]

Powerline badness is a known issue: #115. I’ll look at that again.

I’m going to close this, but reopen if you feel it’s not resolved.

[benmezger]

Perfect.
This is what I added to my .emacs:

; load solarized-theme
; https://github.com/sellout/emacs-color-theme-solarized
(setq frame-background-mode 'dark)
(load-theme 'solarized-dark t)

Then;

; powerline
(setq sml/no-confirm-load-theme t)
(setq sml/theme 'respectful)
(sml/setup)

Apparently sml/theme solarized-dark doesn't work properly, instead, respectful seems to work quite fine.

As mentioned by @sellout, take a look at issue #115.
Cheers.