Re: truecolor option not functional

On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 18:16:46 -0400
Jon Gjengset <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've been trying to enable truecolor support in my screen session after 
> stumbling upon commit 9668a1ab00fea2096555a33cb962cc865b86e74a[1]. 
> However, `:truecolor on` gives `unknown command 'truecolor'`, and
> 
>   truecolor on
> 
> in my ~/.screenrc doesn't seem to make any difference. Am I missing 
> something obvious here? I've set my term to alacritty-256color (which I 
> have a terminfo file for), and am testing with the command
> 
>   printf "\x1b[38;2;255;100;0mTRUECOLOR\x1b[0m\n"
> 
> which should show `TRUECOLOR` in an orange font. This works fine 
> directly in my terminal, but not through screen. My screenrc is 
> otherwise empty (that is, beyond `truecolor on` and `term 
> alacritty-256color`).
> 
> Any advice would be useful!
> Cheers,
> Jon
> 
>  [1]: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/screen.git/commit/?id=9668a1ab00fea2096555a33cb962cc865b86e74a
> 
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Hey,

did you build screen from master branch?

Releases are done from screen-v4 and master is development branch for
next version (v5).

Cheers,
Amadeusz