Vim loses theme when not opened through terminal

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  • base16-shell

    Base16 for Shells

  • I want to have a consistent theme between my terminal and vim so I use Base16 Shell and Base16 Vim. But whenever I open vim without typing it in the command line, ie through dolphin or ranger or vifm the theme gets lost and turns into the blue mess.

  • base16-vim

    Base16 for Vim (by chriskempson)

  • I want to have a consistent theme between my terminal and vim so I use Base16 Shell and Base16 Vim. But whenever I open vim without typing it in the command line, ie through dolphin or ranger or vifm the theme gets lost and turns into the blue mess.

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  • alacritty

    A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

  • It's better to configure your terminal in its configuration file rather than doing it as part of shell initialization (which is the reason you get different colors without interactive shell). I see monokai there.

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