Re: screen with 256 color xterm

[Michael Schroeder]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:47:58PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> Using TERM=xterm-256color does not fix it, as expected, as I believe
> the problem to be with screen and not the environment.  :-)
> 
> I'll repeat myself: using TERM=xterm works fine outside of screen,
> yadda yadda.  I've even bothered to try some custom .screenrc hacks
> using termcapinfo, thinking some of the extra parameters need to be
> defined (AB=ESC[48;5;%dm  and  AF=ESC[38;5;%dm) -- doesn't fix it.

Does your termcap entry for xterm contain Co#256? That's how screen
detects if your terminal supports 256 colors. Maybe adding

    termcapinfo xterm Co#256

does the trick for you. (Of course you might need AB/AF as well).
Note also that the xterm termcap entries that ship with the xterm
program contain:

# These aliases are for compatibility with the terminfo; termcap cannot provide
# the extra features, but termcap applications still want the names.
x1|xterm-16color|xterm alias:tc=xterm-xfree86:
x2|xterm-88color|xterm alias:tc=xterm-256color:
x3|xterm-256color|xterm alias:tc=xterm-xfree86:
xn|xterm-nrc|xterm alias:tc=xterm:
xr|xterm-rep|xterm alias:tc=xterm:
xx|xterm-xmc|xterm alias:sg#1:tc=xterm:

In other words, they don't support the color codes. But maybe your
termcap contains different entries.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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