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

Use this rule if you use Vim through SSH:

1. Add to your local .bashrc:

   export TERM=xterm-256color
   

2. Remove from .bashrc any TERM definitions.

If you use same .bashrc on both (local and remote), use temporary environment variable and never set TERM globally:

alias color-ssh='TERM=xterm-256color ssh user@host'