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bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen b
From: |
Sebastian Tennant |
Subject: |
bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:56:32 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.3 (gnu/linux) |
Quoth Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
on Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:13:45 +0200:
>> From: Sebastian Tennant <sdt@sebyte.me>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 62237@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2023 15:01:53 +0000
>>
>> […]
>>
>> According to:
>>
>> https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=screen
>>
>> Debian bookworm (the next stable release) will ship screen version
>> 4.9.0. I've downloaded the deb and grepped the manpage and the
>> string "truecolor" is nowhere to be found so it looks as if screen
>> shipped by Debian will lack support for truecolor for some years to
>> come.
>
> According to this:
>
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=249670
>
> true color support in 'screen' will be released in version 5, and the
> 4.x branch of 'screen' doesn't support it. This is consistent with
> the fact that you built 'screen' from their mast branch, and it
> announces itself as version 4.99, i.e. the development version of
> v5.x. I guess an entry in etc/PROBLEMS about this is in order.
>
> What is still a mystery to me is why does GNOME Terminal set
> COLORTERM=truecolor in the environment. Does it assume that 'screen'
> will not be used or something? Or does GNOME itself support true
> color?
Debian bullseye (stable) ships GNOME Terminal version 3.38.3,
tagged/released 4th Feb 2021:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/commits/3.38.3
Yet, this commit, made 26th April 2014:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-terminal/-/commits/1d5c1b6ca6373c1301494edbc9e43c3e6a9c9aaf/
reads:
screen: Stop setting COLORTERM env var
[…]
COLORTERM is a long-obsolete slang-only variable used to work around
broken termcap/terminfo entries.
Hmm...
Turns out GNOME Terminal uses VTE (Virtual TErminal):
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte
and COLORTERM is set to ‘truecolor’ in function merge_environ, on line
261 of file src/spawn.cc:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/blob/master/src/spawn.cc
As to why, I've written to Christian Persch and I shall update this
bug report as soon as I receive a response.
--
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- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, (continued)
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Robert Pluim, 2023/03/18
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/03/18
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Robert Pluim, 2023/03/18
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/03/18
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Robert Pluim, 2023/03/18
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/03/18
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Sebastian Tennant, 2023/03/18
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Robert Pluim, 2023/03/18
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Sebastian Tennant, 2023/03/18
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/03/18
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen,
Sebastian Tennant <=
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Sebastian Tennant, 2023/03/18
bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Sebastian Tennant, 2023/03/17
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/03/17
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Sebastian Tennant, 2023/03/17
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/03/17
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/03/17
- bug#62237: 28.1 or higher: 24-bit true color breaks colours in Emacsen built without X under GNU Screen, Sebastian Tennant, 2023/03/17