Sweet! Thank you so much for writing this up.

thanks you so much, I spent 2 hours not be able to fix it.

Thanks! It was driving me nuts that the combination of tmux, vim and solarized was working sort of ok but failing on vim tabs. The solution works on OSX and iTerm2. yay!

I know this is old, but I noticed one problem in my setup. In Ubuntu 12.04, setting TERM=screen-256color causes weirdness when I press the home/end keys on the keyboard in the console (not necessarily in tmux, I didn’t check that). Other weirdness might happen too, but setting TERM=xterm-256color at least solves the home/end weirdness.

Another approach to this problem is to add to konsole a Solarized color scheme (the default one won’t work, but there are a lot of alternatives). I am using this one with only a small modification. The advantages of this solution are that you also get Solarized in your console, you don’t need to play with configuration files, and you don’t need to force Solarized to use 16 or 256 colors. The drawback is that you’ll be tied to the dark or light version for everything, because any other mix (dark scheme for console/light background for vim, for example) will produce ugly dark/light boxes around some elements in vim. Also, you need to add the color scheme to each console emulator that you use.