vim colorschemes not changing background color

Question

I try to apply various color schemes in vim that I have seen on the net. Whatever scheme I choose, the background remains white, even though screenshots of the applied scheme sh

Answer 1

Does the overall settings for the terminal window have something to do with it?

Yes, terminal parameters override vim parameters (at least in OSX and iTerm). For example, I have a following script in /Users/[username]/.bashrc

setBackground() {  
  osascript -e "tell application \"iTerm\"  
    set current_terminal to (current terminal)  
    tell current_terminal  
      set current_session to (current session)  
      tell current_session  
        set background color to $1  
      end tell  
    end tell  
  end tell"  
}  

vim() {
       (setBackground "{65025,65025,65025}" &)
       (exec vim $*)
}

The above remaps terminal vim command to execute a background color change before executing vim. Background color function is applescript (I copied the script from somewhere...). It works for iTerm. I belive that you can adapt this to work with terminal (apple product + apple script -> should work).

br,
Juha