Urxvt and vim bothering

I'm trying desperately to make urxvt show some nice colors AND use my vim color scheme (gentooish) !
But no matter what I do I cant have both !
I want to use urxvt because i like the tabmode, but somehow it breaks my vim theme !
I know this issue has been brougth here in this forum, and I've read all of them, but I cant find a solution that works properly with my setup.
Help is needed !!

Thanks for replying
Could you be more specific please ?
My .Xdefaults looks like this
! Colours
!URxvt*foreground: #BBBBBB
URxvt*foreground: #FFFFFF
URxvt*background: #191919
URxvt*colorBD: #EEEEEF
! Black
URxvt*color0: #404040
!URxvt*color8: #252525
! Red
URxvt*color1: #C12121
URxvt*color9: #E50E0E
! Green
URxvt*color2: #75BD00
URxvt*color10: #89b83f
! Yellow
URxvt*color3: #EDD76A
URxvt*color11: #efef60
! Blue
URxvt*color4: #4F6FAE
URxvt*color12: #3F6FD0
! Magenta
URxvt*color5: #706c9a
URxvt*color13: #826ab1
! Cyan
URxvt*color6: #508695
URxvt*color14: #a1cdcd
! White
URxvt*color7: #BBBBBB
URxvt*color15: #EEEEEF
! Settings
URxvt*termName: xterm
URxvt*loginShell: false
URxvt*scrollBar: false
URxvt*saveLines: 10000
URxvt*font: xft:Terminus:size=11
!URxvt*shading: +10
URxvt*geometry: 90x35
URxvt*internalBorder: 0
!URxvt*perl-ext-common: default,matcher
URxvt*colorUL: white
URxvt*urlLauncher: firefox
URxvt*matcher.button: 1
URxvt*cursorUnderline: false
URxvt*boldFont: xft:Terminus:size=11
URxvt*scrollTtyOutput: false
URxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: true
URxvt*scrollKey: true
URxvt*scrollWithBuffer: false
Xft.dpi: 96
XTerm*font: 9x15
XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: white

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Vim in Gnu Screen in Xterm displays 256 colors properly.
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!XTerm*font: -*-terminal-*-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-
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xterm*faceSize: 8
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XTerm*pointerColor: white
XTerm*pointerColorBackground: black
XTerm*cursorColor: white
!XTerm*internalBorder: 3
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XTerm*scrollBar: false
XTerm*scrollKey: true
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XTerm*multiClickTime: 250
XTerm*boldColors: false
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XTerm*color8: #252525
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XTerm*color10: #89b83f
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XTerm*color3: #Ded838
XTerm*color11: #efef60
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XTerm*color12: #3F6FD0
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XTerm*color13: #826ab1
! Cyan
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XTerm*color14: #a1cdcd
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URxvt*color8: #252525
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URxvt*color9: #E50E0E
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URxvt*color10: #89b83f
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URxvt*color11: #efef60
! Blue
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URxvt*color12: #3F6FD0
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URxvt*color13: #826ab1
! Cyan
URxvt*color6: #69a2b0
URxvt*color14: #a1cdcd
! White
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URxvt*color15: #EEEEEF
To Fix In Xterm
-Get Vim to display 256 colors without Gnu Screen
To Fix In Urxvt
-Get vim to display any color, but preferably 256 colors in urxvt and urxvt with Gnu Screen. (and yes, it's a 256 capable urxvt)
-Get shells i SSH into to recognize the reported term variable
To Fix In Gnu Screen
-Make it stop reporting the term variable as screen-256color-bce without losing 256 color support as this screws up shells i ssh to.
any help would be greatly appreciated. I feel like a dog chasing its tail b/c when I find a fix to one problem, I end up creating 1-2 more.
Last edited by scv5 (2009-07-31 14:11:31)

I had similar but different issues regarding this. Now, i have 256 color support in whatever terminal/ssh/screen session I'm in.
The relevant config lines:
.Xdefaults:
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http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/4796/scrotshot.png
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Last edited by tomd123 (2009-05-12 17:35:42)

*bump*
edit:
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Last edited by tomd123 (2009-05-12 17:31:24)

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