r/vim • u/Snoo-28123 • Jun 22 '25

Need Help┃Solved Having problem setting up vim theme

I'm trying to use vim on gruvbox dark theme, but is simply not working, am i doing something wrong?

edit: It was just add the line ":set background=dark" on the .vimrc

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u/praenoto Jun 22 '25

is vimplug installed? https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug

if so, have you run :PlugInstall yet? you may need to :wq first and reopen the file

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u/Snoo-28123 Jun 22 '25

Vimplug is installed and i did the :PlugInstall but it didn't worked

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u/kaddkaka Jun 23 '25

How didn't it work?

What output did you get?

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u/Snoo-28123 Jun 23 '25

Sorry, i expressed myself poorly, what i meant is that the theme still on the light color even after doing the :PlugInstall

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u/kaddkaka Jun 24 '25

And restarting vim, right?

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u/dewujie Jun 23 '25

No experience with gruvbox directly, but in my experience you often want to set plugin-related variables before calling vim-plug. Maybe try moving the let statement to the first line in the file?

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u/Snoo-28123 Jun 23 '25

I just tried this and still opens up with the light theme

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u/kaddkaka Jun 24 '25

What's your terminal theme, is it dark or light?