[screen-devel] [bug #32469] 256 color capable terminal is not autodetected

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32469>

                 Summary: 256 color capable terminal is not autodetected
                 Project: GNU Screen
            Submitted by: arekm
            Submitted on: Mon 14 Feb 2011 09:13:41 AM CET
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.0.3
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
           Work Required: None

    _______________________________________________________

Details:

I'm using 256 colors capable terminal (TERM=konsole-256color; kde konsole
terminal). When I start screen it doesn't automaticly turn on 256 color
support which is IMO very bad.

I have to add:

# terminfo and termcap for nice 256 color terminal
# allow bold colors - necessary for some reason
attrcolor b ".I"
# tell screen how to set colors. AB = background, AF=foreground
termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'
# erase background with current bg color
defbce "on"

to my .screenrc to get it working somehow. It's unfortunately still not enough
since screen sets TERM=screen-bce while it should set
TERM=screen-256color-bce.

When looking for a solution I found few bugreports in distros bugtrackers
about the same issue but no real (aka patch implementing autodetection)
solution.




    _______________________________________________________

Reply to this item at:

  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?32469>

_______________________________________________
  Message sent via/by Savannah
  http://savannah.gnu.org/