Re: 256 colors - xterm, screen, slrn

Christian Ebert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Organization Black Trash Productions <http://www.blacktrash.org/>
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* John E. Davis on Friday, October 26, 2007 at 12:30:49 +0000
> cga2000 <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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).
> 
> Do you have TERMCAP set in your screen environment?

yes

> If so, unset it as its value takes precedence over the system
> terminfo files.

Ah, yes, unsetting TERMCAP does the trick here.

Thanks!

c
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