Re: screen with 256 color xterm

[Jeremy Chadwick]

Michael,

I built screen with #define COLORS256, and sad to say, screen continues
to filter out appropriate escape codes.

The problem is not with my termcap, screenrc (global or $HOME), or
otherwise, as I can use 256colors2.pl just fine with TERM=xterm
while outside of screen.  When run inside of screen, screen acts as
if there is only 16 colours available to it.

Just for kicks, I tried tinkering a bit with "termcapinfo xterm", just
to see if I could work out a hack/solution.  I wasn't able to.

Can you provide some more insight as to why it might not work?

Note that I am not using a literal xterm, but rather PuTTY via SSH.
Yes, xterm 256 colour support is enabled in PuTTY; again, everything
works absolutely 100% correct while outside of screen, and screen is
indeed built with COLORS256 defined.

If you need 256colors2.pl, you can fetch it from here:

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/software/tf256color/src/256colors2.pl

Thanks!

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
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| UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, USA |
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 07:03:25PM +0200, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 01:53:52PM +0200, Johannes Segitz wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > is it possible to use screen with a 256 color xterm? Setting TERM to
> > xterm-256color before starting screen results in scrambled output of
> > commands. Changing TERM from screen to xterm-256color in screen doesn't
> > change that. Would be very nice to have this under screen since my vim
> > colorscheme needs 256 colors. 
> 
> You have to define COLORS256 in config.h...
> 
> Cheers,
>   Michael.
> 
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