Set 24-bit colors terminal (Truecolor) for Solarized theme on Mac

Question

I am trying to get Solarized theme color correct in terminal by enabling truecolor on my Mac, following the instruction from Spacemaces: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/wiki/Terminal.

But I got error when I set TERM=xterm-24bit:

$ TERM=xterm-24bit
zsh: can't find terminal definition for xterm-24bit

I also tried to put compiled terminfo into /usr/share/terminfo, not working.

I also tried to set TERMINFO to $HOME/.terminfo, not working.

I am using iTerm2 3.2.1, Emacs 26.1, macOS 10.14 and Spacemacs.

Answer 1

It turns out to be a problem with the tic I use.

Because I installed latest miniconda and included it in PATH, so when I run which tic I got /Users/Yuji/miniconda/bin/tic. Once I changed to use system tic, problem solved. Here is the code:

/usr/bin/tic  -x -o ~/.terminfo  xterm-24bit.terminfo

Hope this helps!