Re: 256 colors

[Peder Stray]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Peder Stray wrote:

> How can i tell if the screen i am using really understands 256 colors or 
> not? i try 'tput 39' both within screen and outside, both actually send 
> \e[38;5;39m (light blue) as it should, but it seens screen translates it to 
> \e[34m (blue).  tput colors report 256 both within and outside screen.

This for a remote screen inside a screen that actuall knows 256-colors, 
with TERM set to screen before starting screen. Running a testprogram it 
seems that this inner screen knows only of the first 8 colors.  Changing 
TERM to xterm-256color and then starting screen i seems to know abount 16 
colors nstead.  Both termacpentries specify 256 colors, and their diff 
seems to mostly include key definitions.

Screen does color conversion in both cases, so the full colorcube is 
translated to nearest color.

> any ideas?


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  Peder Stray