Re: 256 colors - xterm, screen, slrn

cga2000 <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 03:09:57PM EDT, Sven Guckes wrote:
> * cga2000 <[email protected]> [2007-10-26 21:04]:
> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 10:41:19AM EDT, Sven Guckes wrote:
> > > * cga2000 <[email protected]> [2007-10-26 14:13]:
> > > > 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).
> >
> > > well, have you installed screen with "256 color support"?
> >
> > Naturally.
> 
> just checking..
> 
> > Otherwise, the "perl script" would not be able to display 256 colors
> > "with or without the intervening gnu/screen layer".
> 
> have you counted them all? ;-)

Yes.

It displays the traditional so-called 16 "system" colors ..

.. a "color cube" with 216 "extended" (my wording) colors ..

.. and a so-called "ramp" with 24 shades of gray.

The nice thing with this script is that as long as you have seen the
output before .. you can tell at a glance whether you're correctly
configured 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
> >
> > Thanks, but I'm getting an "internal server error".
> 
> indeed... looks like the webserver has a problem right now.
> check again later, please.

I certainly will.

> > How could the two identical URL's above have a different byte count?
> 
> copy+paste error..  the second "two" was superfluous.
> 
>     http://www.guckes.net/Setup/256colors.pl     324 bytes
> 
> happy? ;)

No. Curious.

Thanks,
cga

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