Re: Trouble getting 256 mode working in latest Ubuntu
Axel Beckert <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gnu.screen.user |
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| Organization | DeuxChevaux.org -- The Citr oën 2CV Database |
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Hi, On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 04:53:32PM -0500, Dun Peal wrote: > I recently upgraded to latest stable Ubuntu (18.04 LTS). > Unfortunately, after building screen from source, 256 mode no longer > seems to work. For example, if I launch vim, it reverts to the 8 color > color scheme. > > This was a problem with both the 4.6.2 release (which appears to be > the latest officially tagged release) and the older 4.5.1 release that > I've been using on Ubuntu 16.04 and worked flawlessly with 256 colors. If I understand your problem correctly, this is not an issue in screen but depends on the set of terminal definitions available on your system(s). Usually having ncurses-term installed (on both sides, if SSH is involved) suffices to fix these kind of issues. See also the discussion in https://bugs.debian.org/898666 Kind regards, Axel -- PGP: 2FF9CD59612616B5 /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign, http://arc.pasp.de/ Mail: [email protected] \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and Usenet Mail+Jabber: [email protected] X https://axel.beckert.ch/ / \ I love long mails: https://email.is-not-s.ms/