On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:22:00 -0500
"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@...> wrote:

> All,
> 
>   On Arch when I run vim in konsole in R14, when I exit a file, I get
> the following warning every time:
> 
>   Warning: Color name "BACKGROUND" is not defined
> 
>   I don't know if this is a tde problem not setting "BACKGROUND" or
> if it is a vim problem not finding "BACKGROUND" it should set or
> handle.
> 
>   Has anyone seen this warning? Where should background be set and to
> what? It kind of looks like the basic xterm settings are not being
> found, but I've checked settings in konsole and they look like they
> do in other installs. Is this something that isn't being set by
> starttde?
> 
>   It's not a standard environment issue, because I set:
> 
> 18:19 valkyrie:~/Documents/bld/twcs5> export BACKGROUND=#000000
> 18:20 valkyrie:~/Documents/bld/twcs5> set | grep BACKGROUND
> BACKGROUND='#000000'
> _=BACKGROUND
> 
>   and I still get:
> 
> 18:20 valkyrie:~/Documents/bld/twcs5> vi PKGBUILD
> Warning: Color name "BACKGROUND" is not defined
> 
>   Any thoughts?
On my system, BACKGROUND is set neither in Konsole 3.5.13, nor in
xterm, nor in Terminal (the Xfce terminal emulator).
And vim (7.2.416) doesn't complain. My ~/.vimrc contains
set bg=dark
, perhaps you should add a similar line to your .vimrc ?