Yazi Themes Consistently Inheriting Terminal Background Color on macOS?

[pipe-organ]

What system are you running Yazi on?

macOS

What terminal are you running Yazi in?

Ghostty 1.1.3, iTerm2 3.5.13 and WezTerm latest stable

yazi --debug output

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Describe the question

Hello, I'm finding that Yazi themes don't seem to set their own background color for the main file listing panes. Instead, they consistently inherit the background color configured in my terminal emulator.
I have tested this behavior across several different terminal emulators on macOS:

• Ghostty 1.1.3
• iTerm2 Build 3.5.13
• WezTerm (latest stable)

I tried multiple different themes

• flexoki-dark.yazi
• ayu-dark.yazi
• catppuccin-mocha.yazi
• monokai-vibrant.yazi

In every combination of terminal and theme, the background color used by Yazi in the main panes matches the default background color set in the active terminal profile. For example, if the terminal background is dark blue, Yazi uses dark blue, regardless of the theme selected.

Is there a way to make Yazi use theme's background color, not the terminal's background color?

Anything else?

Checklist

• I have read all the documentation
• I have searched the existing discussions/issues

[sumit-modak]

yes, I am also encountering this problem
Operating System: NixOS
Terminal: Kitty
Terminal Multiplexer: Zellij

[sxyazi]

Closing in favor of #2791