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When I change my color scheme in command-line Vim on Ubuntu 11.04, stripes on the bottom and right of the terminal (xterm) refuse to change color. While I can select any color scheme that I like, the two bands of color will remain at the default set for my xterm profile. Here’s a link to an image to illustrate what I describe; my best guess is that xterm is not playing well with fullscreen mode in Unity. Do you have any suggestions for things I should try in order to fix this?
Vim is applying its colors to individual character cells.
Your expanded xterm window’s width and height are probably not divisible by the width and height of a single character cell.
With my own font settings, a cell is 7 px by 15 px.
My display is 1600px wide and 1200 px tall, a fullscreen xterm would cover the entire area but the available cells would only cover an area of 1594 px * 1200 px, leaving a tiny 4 px wide vertical band on the right and — luckily — fit the whole height.
I see one easy way to get rid of your “stripes”: set the background color of xterm to the same color you use in your colorscheme or vice-versa.