Hi cga2000, On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:06 AM PST, cga2000 wrote: c> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 01:42:36AM EST, Mun Johl wrote: c> > Hi Kyle, et al., c> > c> > Thanks for the constructive feedback. With your help, I first started c> > looking into my ncurses implementation. I cleaned things up best I c> > could and then downloaded and installed ncurses v5.6 compiled with 256 c> > color support. That alone did not resolve my issue; but I do believe it c> > helped. c> > c> > The rxvt terminfo file I was using came with my terminal emulator and c> > was supposed to support 256 colors, but it appears there is some issue c> > with that file. I tried setting my TERM var to xterm-256color. That c> > appears to have done the trick! I can now use the colorN technique to c> > access all 256 colors. I'm one happy camper :) c> > c> > Thanks again for all the help. c> c> ok for a test .. to narrow down your problem .. c> c> but other things are likely to break. c> c> The terminfo entry describes your terminal's capabilities to the c> "system". And there's lots of stuff in a terminfo entry apart from the c> number of colors that is likely to be quite different between rxvt and c> xterm. c> c> So for regular every day use you either want to install a proper c> rxvt-256color terminfo entry .. or, switch to 256-color xterm.
Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely take switching to a 256-color xterm under consideration. -- Mun
