Using Wal theme, doesn't seem to use pywal theme colours Neovim 0.4.4

[Deep-Six]

Firstly I want to be clear that I've removed set termguicolors, so that unfortunately isn't it.

When I use the wal colour scheme after installing the plugin it seems the colour scheme isn't anything close to the theme colours. I have the following in my ~/.cache/wal/colors file:

#111010
#6E4C32
#725444
#8C5A32
#A06C50
#BF7955
#AF8771
#e1beac
#9d8578
#6E4C32
#725444
#8C5A32
#A06C50
#BF7955
#AF8771
#e1beac

Yet I end up with a white screen with black text, yellow line numbers and teal highlights...

I'm happy to help troubleshoot.

[potatokuka]

I am also experiencing this same issue

[ghost]

Could you post your init.vim?

[marcelofern]

Exact same thing here:

My init.vim:

scriptencoding utf8

" Arch defaults
runtime! archlinux.vim

" Start configuration for Vundle and its plugins.
set nocompatible
filetype off
call plug#begin('~/.local/share/nvim/plugged')

Plug 'airblade/vim-gitgutter'
Plug 'davidhalter/jedi-vim'
Plug 'dense-analysis/ale'
Plug 'easymotion/vim-easymotion'
Plug 'gmarik/Vundle.vim'
Plug 'kien/ctrlp.vim'
Plug 'lepture/vim-jinja'
Plug 'majutsushi/tagbar'
Plug 'mileszs/ack.vim'
Plug 'morhetz/gruvbox'
Plug 'nvie/vim-flake8'
Plug 'posva/vim-vue'
Plug 'rakr/vim-one'
Plug 'scrooloose/nerdtree'
Plug 'tmhedberg/SimpylFold'
Plug 'tpope/vim-commentary'
Plug 'tpope/vim-fugitive'
Plug 'tpope/vim-surround'
Plug 'tyru/open-browser-github.vim'
Plug 'tyru/open-browser.vim'
Plug 'vim-scripts/indentpython.vim'
Plug 'vimwiki/vimwiki'
" a vim colorscheme to go with pywal
Plug 'dylanaraps/wal.vim'
" i3 config file syntax highlight.
Plug 'mboughaba/i3config.vim'
" A better JSON syntax highlight
Plug 'elzr/vim-json'
" Highlight extra whitespaces in red.
Plug 'ntpeters/vim-better-whitespace'
" Sweet to focus reading.
Plug 'junegunn/goyo.vim'
" Limelight let you switch to presentation mode.
Plug 'junegunn/limelight.vim'
" Peek into registers with @ and \"
Plug 'junegunn/vim-peekaboo'
" the below requires cmake to be installed
Plug 'ycm-core/YouCompleteMe', { 'do': './install.py --clangd-completer' }
" syntax

call plug#end()
filetype plugin indent on
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" leader config: comma is better than space.
let mapleader=","
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Indentation.
set encoding=utf-8
set softtabstop=2
set tabstop=2
set shiftwidth=2
set expandtab

set textwidth=0 wrapmargin=0
set colorcolumn=79

au FileType python,c
    \ setlocal tabstop=4 |
    \ setlocal softtabstop=4 |
    \ setlocal shiftwidth=4 |
    \ setlocal expandtab |   "convert tabs to spaces
    \ setlocal autoindent |
    \ setlocal fileformat=unix
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Cursor configuration
highlight Cursor guifg=white guibg=black
highlight iCursor guifg=white guibg=black
set guicursor=n-v-c:block-Cursor
set guicursor+=i:ver100-iCursor
set guicursor+=n-v-c:blinkon0
set guicursor+=i:blinkwait10
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Moving blocks identation, so multiple hits on "<" do what it is intended.
vmap < <gv
vmap > >gv
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Folding code via space bar
set foldmethod=indent
set foldlevel=99
nnoremap <space> za
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Spell check
nnoremap <F6> :setlocal spell! spelllang=en_gb<CR>
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Using jedi for python files only instead of YCM. Definition command is better
let g:jedi#goto_definitions_command = "<F12>"
let g:jedi#use_tabs_not_buffers = 0
let g:jedi#popup_on_dot = 0   "Remove completion as it is very slow.
let g:jedi#show_call_signatures = "0"  "call signatures can be slow too.
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" YCM (you complete me) configuration.
let g:ycm_autoclose_preview_window_after_insertion = 1
let g:ycm_autoclose_preview_window_after_completion = 1
" remove YCM for python as it is slow in a large codebase.
let g:ycm_filetype_blacklist = {'python': 1, 'py': 1}

" Max number of completion suggestions
let g:ycm_max_num_candidates = 5

nnoremap <F10> :tab split \| YcmCompleter GoToDeclaration<CR>
nnoremap <F12> :tab split \| YcmCompleter GoToDefinition<CR>
nnoremap <F9> :tab split \| YcmCompleter GoToReferences<CR>
let g:ycm_server_keep_logfiles = 1
let g:ycm_server_log_level = 'debug'
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Highlight word "self" in python files.
autocmd BufReadPost *.py syn match pythonBoolean "\(\W\|^\)\@<=self\(\.\)\@="
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" w!! to write with sudo even if not opened with sudo
cmap w!! w !sudo tee >/dev/null %

"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Colour scheme
" set termguicolors
" set background=light
let g:gruvbox_contrast_light = 'hard'
let g:gruvbox_contrast_dark = 'soft'
colorscheme wal
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" nerdtree (file browsing) configuration
let NERDTreeIgnore=['\.pyc$', '\~$', '__pycache__']
map <C-t> :NERDTreeToggle<CR>
let g:NERDTreeMapOpenSplit = 'h'
let g:NERDTreeMapOpenVSplit = 'v'
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Buffers movimentation
nnoremap <silent> [b :bprevious<CR>
nnoremap <silent> ]b :bnext<CR>
nnoremap <silent> [B :bfirst<CR>
nnoremap <silent> ]B :blast<CR>
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" line configuration
set nu
set relativenumber
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Search configuration
let g:ctrlp_map = '<c-p>'
let g:ctrlp_cmd = 'CtrlP'
" nnoremap <C-m> :CtrlPMRU<CR>
let g:ctrlp_use_caching = 0
let g:ctrlp_prompt_mappings = {
  \  'PrtInsert("c")': ['<MiddleMouse>', '<insert>', '<c-v>'] }
let g:ctrlp_custom_ignore = 'node_modules'
let g:ctrlp_max_files=0
" highligh search
:set hlsearch
let g:ackhighlight=1
" make vim's search pattern case insensitive.
set ignorecase
" complements ignorecase. Ignores case only if search is all lowercase
set smartcase
"Ack configs"
cnoreabbrev ack Ack!
let g:ackpreview=0
let g:ackprg = 'rg -S --vimgrep --no-heading'
let g:ack_mappings = {
      \  'v':  '<C-W><CR><C-W>L<C-W>p<C-W>J<C-W>p',
      \ 'gv': '<C-W><CR><C-W>L<C-W>p<C-W>J' }
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Splits navigation
nnoremap <C-J> <C-W><C-J>
nnoremap <C-K> <C-W><C-K>
nnoremap <C-L> <C-W><C-L>
nnoremap <C-H> <C-W><C-H>
" always split below or right
set splitbelow
set splitright
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Enable mouse.
set mouse=a
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" I want to use backspace rather than only "d"
set backspace=2
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Pontuation lint
" set showbreak=↪\ 
" set listchars=tab:\|_,eol:↲,nbsp:␣,trail:•,extends:⟩,precedes:⟨
set listchars=tab:\|_,nbsp:␣,trail:•,extends:⟩,precedes:⟨
set list
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Closing windows hotkeys
" nnoremap <C-w> :q<CR>
nnoremap <Leader>q :q<CR>
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Json formatting hotkeys
nnoremap <Leader>json :%!python -m json.tool<CR>
" xml formatting hotkeys
nnoremap <Leader>xml :%!python3 -c "import xml.dom.minidom, sys; print(xml.dom.minidom.parse(sys.stdin).toprettyxml())"<CR>

" Resizing
map + :vertical resize +2<CR>
map - :vertical resize -2<CR>
map _ :vertical resize 85<CR>
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" tabs
noremap <leader>t :tabnew<CR>
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" allow copy to clipboard
set clipboard+=unnamedplus
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" git commands
set updatetime=100
noremap <Leader>gc :GitGutterUndoHunk<CR>
noremap <Leader>gn :GitGutterNextHunk<CR>
noremap <Leader>gp :GitGutterPrevHunk<CR>
noremap <leader>gb :Gblame<CR>
noremap <leader>gd :Gdiff<CR>
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" jinja config
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.html,*.htm,*.shtml,*.stm,*.jinja,*.jinja2 set ft=jinja
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" tagbar
noremap <F8> :TagbarToggle<CR>
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" debug
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py noremap <F1> :normal oimport ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()<ESC>
au BufNewFile,BufRead *.py noremap <F2> :g/^.*import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace().*/d<CR>
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" easy motion
nmap <Leader><leader>f <Plug>(easymotion-overwin-f)
nmap <Leader><leader>F <Plug>(easymotion-overwin-F)
nmap <Leader><leader>w <Plug>(easymotion-overwin-w)
nmap <C-F> <Plug>(easymotion-overwin-w)
nmap <Leader><leader>W <Plug>(easymotion-overwin-W)
nmap <Leader><leader>. <Plug>(easymotion-repeat)
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" goyo (reader)
noremap <leader>go :Goyo<CR>
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
"
" limelight (reader)
noremap <leader>l :Limelight!!0.9<CR>
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" wiki
highlight VimwikiHeader1 guifg=#fabd2f
highlight VimwikiHeader2 guifg=#b8bb26
highlight VimwikiHeader3 guifg=#8ec07c
let g:vimwiki_list = [{'path': '~/workspace/vimwiki/'}]
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

" Ale linter, which works for C as well using clang.
let b:ale_linters = {
  \'javascript': ['eslint'],
  \'python': ['flake8'],
  \'c': ['cc', 'clangtidy']
\}
let g:ale_c_cc_options = '-std=c17 -Wall'
let g:ale_linters_explicit = 1 "Ale will only run on the list above.
let g:ale_lint_delay = 500 "milliseconds delay after typing trigger
"-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

[cprn]

Does it work in terminal right after setting a new wallpaper like so?

cd ~/wallpapers
wal -c
wal -i some_wallpaper.png
nvim +color\ wal

And if so, are you loading the scheme in terminal - do you have something similar to the following line in your RC file (e.g. .bashrc or .zshrc)?:

([ -f ~/.cache/wal/sequences ] && cat ~/.cache/wal/sequences &)

If it still doesn't work:

1. what terminal emulator are you using?
2. are you using some kind of wrapper, e.g. to emulate gvim by running nvim in terminal?
3. can you update NeoVIM (works fine for me on NVIM 0.5.1)?
4. does it work if you save the minimal config from below as ~/tmp/vimrc and run nvim like so?:

nvim -u ~/tmp/vimrc +PlugClean! +PlugInstall! +close +"color wal" +"e ~/.vimrc"

Minimal config (add path for vim-plug if you need to):

set nocompatible
set notermguicolors
set background=dark

call plug#begin()
Plug 'dylanaraps/wal.vim'
call plug#end()