Hi, I'm currently playing around with 256 colors in my terminal. Locally I basically have everything working.
For screen I had to put "term screen-256color" into my .screenrc. This way, applications automatically detect that the terminal supports 256 colors. The problems come when moving onto other systems. The terminfo entry for screen-256color is almost never installed on other systems, which causes the applications on the remote hosts to choke on the TERM variable and revert to very very basic functionality. I worked around this by setting TERM to screen if it is screen-256color and that terminfo entry does not exist. Is this the recommended way to deal with this issue? Another problem is that I sync my configuration files for bash, screen, etc. via SVN. Since my .screenrc contains the "term screen-256color" line it won't work very well on systems where this terminfo entry is not installed. Screen will revert to vt100 in this case. Is there a possibility to set the "screen-TERM" only to screen-256color if it's available, or is there a possibility to divide the screen configuration, so that I could only use this on my local host and not on the others? Or is there another way out of this mess? Any help is greatly appreciated! Best regards, Mika _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
