Re: 256 colors - xterm, screen, slrn

* cga2000 <[email protected]> [2007-10-26 14:13]:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 09:01:53PM EDT, John E. Davis wrote:
> > cga2000 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Does the following slsh script work for you?
> > It shows 256 foreground colors for each of 256 background colors.
>
> Did I mention I run everything under gnu/screen?  :-(
>
> The slsmg script displays 256 colors alright..
> when I run it directly on top of an xterm.
>
> But when I run it in a gnu/screen-managed terminal
> it only displays 8 colors (black, red, green,
> yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white).
>
> I haven't tested with slrn but my guess
> is that I can expect a similar behavior.

well, have you installed screen with "256 color support"?

  ~/screen-4.0.3> ./configure -help | grep 256
    --enable-colors256      enable support for 256 colors

> And here's a perl script that displays 256 colors
> with or without the intervening gnu/screen layer:

available from here now - with two similar ones:
http://www.guckes.net/Setup/256colors2.pl    324 bytes
http://www.guckes.net/Setup/16colors.txt    4495 bytes
http://www.guckes.net/Setup/256colors2.pl   1620 bytes

and, folks, please remember that adjusting
the subject line is a good thing[tm], ok?!

Sven

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