Hi! I've tried to get my terminal+tmux to display true colors today using the latest terminfo as imported to NetBSD.
Either I misunderstand something or the tmux-direct entry is broken. > infocmp tmux-direct # Reconstructed from /usr/share/misc/terminfo.cdb tmux-direct|tmux with direct-color indexing, am, hs, km, mir, msgr, xenl, colors#8, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#64, ... It shouldn't be 'colors#8', but 16777216, which is the whole point of the "-direct" entries. xterm-direct looks good: > infocmp xterm-direct # Reconstructed from /usr/share/misc/terminfo.cdb xterm-direct|xterm with direct-color indexing, am, bce, km, mc5i, mir, msgr, npc, xenl, colors#16777216, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#65536, ... Reading terminfo.src I see: tmux-direct|tmux with direct-color indexing, use=kitty+setal, use=xterm+direct, use=tmux, > infocmp kitty+setal kitty+setal|set underline colors (nonstandard), Compare that to terminfo.src: kitty+setal|set underline colors (nonstandard), setal=\E[58:2::%p1%{65536}%/%d:%p1%{256}%/%{255}%&%d:%p1 %{255}%&%dm, Seems like NetBSD's infocmp (or terminfo) doesn't support setal, sounds like a bug. > infocmp xterm+direct # Reconstructed from /usr/share/misc/terminfo.cdb xterm+direct|xterm with direct-color indexing (building-block), colors#16777216, pairs#65536, op=\E[39;49m, setab=\E[%?%p1%{8}%<%t4%p1%d%e48:2::%p1%{65536}%/%d:%p1%{256}%/%{255}%&%d:%p1%{255}%&%d%;m, setaf=\E[%?%p1%{8}%<%t3%p1%d%e38:2::%p1%{65536}%/%d:%p1%{256}%/%{255}%&%d:%p1%{255}%&%d%;m, Compared to terminfo file: xterm+direct|xterm with direct-color indexing (building-block), RGB, colors#0x1000000, pairs#0x10000, CO#8, initc@, op=\E[39;49m, setab=\E[%?%p1%{8}%<%t4%p1%d%e48:2::%p1%{65536}%/%d:%p1 %{256}%/%{255}%&%d:%p1%{255}%&%d%;m, setaf=\E[%?%p1%{8}%<%t3%p1%d%e38:2::%p1%{65536}%/%d:%p1 %{256}%/%{255}%&%d:%p1%{255}%&%d%;m, setb@, setf@, Again, a couple things seem to get lost (RGB, CO#8, initc@, setb@, setf@) but the colors are there. > infocmp tmux # Reconstructed from /usr/share/misc/terminfo.cdb tmux|tmux terminal multiplexer, am, hs, km, mir, msgr, xenl, colors#8, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#64, ... so the colors get lost here because colors#8 overwrites the xterm+direct entry. >From terminfo: tmux|tmux terminal multiplexer, invis=\E[8m, rmso=\E[27m, sgr=\E[0%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%? %p5%t;2%;%?%p7%t;8%;m%?%p9%t\016%e\017%;, smso=\E[7m, E3=\E[3J, Smulx=\E[4:%p1%dm, use=ecma+italics, use=ecma+strikeout, use=xterm+edit, use=xterm+pcfkeys, use=xterm+sl, use=xterm+tmux, use=screen, use=bracketed+paste, use=report+version, use=xterm+focus, I looked at the 'use' and some of them are empty (which makes me think NetBSD's infocmp or terminfo are missing more features) and then I found: # Reconstructed from /usr/share/misc/terminfo.cdb screen|VT 100/ANSI X3.64 virtual terminal, am, km, mir, msgr, xenl, colors#8, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#64, ... So it looks to me like the 'colors' from the 'screen' entry via the 'tmux' entry overwrite the colors defined by 'xterm+direct'. When I run infocmp from ncurses 6.4, I get a different output for tmux-direct: # /usr/pkg/bin/infocmp tmux-direct # Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/pkg/share/terminfo/t/tmux-direct tmux-direct|tmux with direct-color indexing, am, hs, km, mir, msgr, xenl, colors#0x7fff, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#0x7fff, acsc=++\,\,--..00``aaffgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~, bel=^G, blink=\E[5m, bold=\E[1m, cbt=\E[Z, civis=\E[?25l, clear=\E[H\E[J, cnorm=\E[34h\E[?25h, cr=\r, csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H, cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=\n, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C, cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\EM, cvvis=\E[34l, dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P, dim=\E[2m, dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M, dsl=\E]0;\007, ed=\E[J, el=\E[K, el1=\E[1K, enacs=\E(B\E)0, flash=\Eg, fsl=^G, home=\E[H, hpa=\E[%i%p1%dG, ht=^I, hts=\EH, ich=\E[%p1%d@, il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L, ind=\n, indn=\E[%p1%dS, invis=\E[8m, is2=\E)0, kDC=\E[3;2~, kEND=\E[1;2F, kHOM=\E[1;2H, kIC=\E[2;2~, kLFT=\E[1;2D, kNXT=\E[6;2~, kPRV=\E[5;2~, kRIT=\E[1;2C, kbs=^?, kcbt=\E[Z, kcub1=\EOD, kcud1=\EOB, kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA, kdch1=\E[3~, kend=\E[4~, kf1=\EOP, kf10=\E[21~, kf11=\E[23~, kf12=\E[24~, kf13=\E[1;2P, kf14=\E[1;2Q, kf15=\E[1;2R, kf16=\E[1;2S, kf17=\E[15;2~, kf18=\E[17;2~, kf19=\E[18;2~, kf2=\EOQ, kf20=\E[19;2~, kf21=\E[20;2~, kf22=\E[21;2~, kf23=\E[23;2~, kf24=\E[24;2~, kf25=\E[1;5P, kf26=\E[1;5Q, kf27=\E[1;5R, kf28=\E[1;5S, kf29=\E[15;5~, kf3=\EOR, kf30=\E[17;5~, kf31=\E[18;5~, kf32=\E[19;5~, kf33=\E[20;5~, kf34=\E[21;5~, kf35=\E[23;5~, kf36=\E[24;5~, kf37=\E[1;6P, kf38=\E[1;6Q, kf39=\E[1;6R, kf4=\EOS, kf40=\E[1;6S, kf41=\E[15;6~, kf42=\E[17;6~, kf43=\E[18;6~, kf44=\E[19;6~, kf45=\E[20;6~, kf46=\E[21;6~, kf47=\E[23;6~, kf48=\E[24;6~, kf49=\E[1;3P, kf5=\E[15~, kf50=\E[1;3Q, kf51=\E[1;3R, kf52=\E[1;3S, kf53=\E[15;3~, kf54=\E[17;3~, kf55=\E[18;3~, kf56=\E[19;3~, kf57=\E[20;3~, kf58=\E[21;3~, kf59=\E[23;3~, kf6=\E[17~, kf60=\E[24;3~, kf61=\E[1;4P, kf62=\E[1;4Q, kf63=\E[1;4R, kf7=\E[18~, kf8=\E[19~, kf9=\E[20~, khome=\E[1~, kich1=\E[2~, kind=\E[1;2B, kmous=\E[M, knp=\E[6~, kpp=\E[5~, kri=\E[1;2A, nel=\EE, op=\E[39;49m, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m, ri=\EM, rin=\E[%p1%dT, ritm=\E[23m, rmacs=^O, rmcup=\E[?1049l, rmir=\E[4l, rmkx=\E[?1l\E>, rmso=\E[27m, rmul=\E[24m, rs2=\Ec\E[?1000l\E[?25h, sc=\E7, setab=\E[%?%p1%{8}%<%t4%p1%d%e48:2::%p1%{65536}%/%d:%p1%{256}%/%{255}%&%d:%p1%{255}%&%d%;m, setaf=\E[%?%p1%{8}%<%t3%p1%d%e38:2::%p1%{65536}%/%d:%p1%{256}%/%{255}%&%d:%p1%{255}%&%d%;m, sgr=\E[0%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p5%t;2%;%?%p7%t;8%;m%?%p9%t\016%e\017%;, sgr0=\E[m\017, sitm=\E[3m, smacs=^N, smcup=\E[?1049h, smir=\E[4h, smkx=\E[?1h\E=, smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m, tbc=\E[3g, tsl=\E]0;, u6=\E[%i%d;%dR, u7=\E[6n, u8=\E[?1;2c, u9=\E[c, vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd, which does not offer 1677216 colors, but more than 8. (xterm-direct analyzed this way also only reports xterm-direct|xterm with direct-color indexing, ... colors#0x7fff, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#0x7fff, ... ) So this looks like ncurses terminfo handling when 'use'ing other entries is different than what NetBSD's is doing. Does this look correct? Then it'd be time for a bug report... Thomas