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screen, 256color mode and ssh
From: |
Mika Fischer |
Subject: |
screen, 256color mode and ssh |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:27:22 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) |
Hi,
I'm currently playing around with 256 colors in my terminal. Locally I
basically have everything working.
For screen I had to put "term screen-256color" into my .screenrc. This
way, applications automatically detect that the terminal supports 256
colors.
The problems come when moving onto other systems. The terminfo entry for
screen-256color is almost never installed on other systems, which causes
the applications on the remote hosts to choke on the TERM variable and
revert to very very basic functionality.
I worked around this by setting TERM to screen if it is screen-256color
and that terminfo entry does not exist. Is this the recommended way to
deal with this issue?
Another problem is that I sync my configuration files for bash, screen,
etc. via SVN. Since my .screenrc contains the "term screen-256color"
line it won't work very well on systems where this terminfo entry is not
installed. Screen will revert to vt100 in this case.
Is there a possibility to set the "screen-TERM" only to screen-256color
if it's available, or is there a possibility to divide the screen
configuration, so that I could only use this on my local host and not on
the others? Or is there another way out of this mess?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Best regards,
Mika
- screen, 256color mode and ssh,
Mika Fischer <=