Cannot get the solarized theme on neovim on Alacritty (or Kitty) on Linux

[garret]

I would like to have the solarized color scheme only in neovim when using the terminal on Linux. I use Alacritty as main terminal but I have the exact same issue with Kitty for instance. In particular, I am using the default settings of Alacritty and neovim (in this last case I just added some plugins).

Before installing the solarized color scheme, this is how my vim appears:

I copied the solarized.vim file into $HOME/.config/nvim/colors/ and this is the result:

I also added the let g:solarized_termcolors=256 line but still doesn't really help:

Do you know if there is a way to solve the issue?

[rhubinak]

Try either https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8 or https://github.com/frankier/neovim-colors-solarized-truecolor-only

[kangzoel]

You should change your terminal theme to solarized. And also, don't set the solarized_termcolors to 256, it's a fallback color, not the original solarized colors

[garret]

You should change your terminal theme to solarized. And also, don't set the solarized_termcolors to 256, it's a fallback color, not the original solarized colors

In my original post I explain that I want solarized in vim but another color scheme for my terminal (alacritty).

[port19x]

I encountered the same issue. Just setting Kitty to use solarized fixes the colors

[waldo2810]

This can be fixed by setting these two lines (in my case, at the end of my vimrc)

set t_Co=16
let g:solarized_termcolors=16

Everything would be:

syntax on
set t_Co=16
let g:solarized_termcolors=16
set background=dark
colorscheme solarized

See here