> I am currently running mc 4.8.27 and GNU Screen 4.09.00. > > I am having trouble getting 256 colors to display in Midnight Commander when > it is running within GNU Screen. ?I can confirm that MC 256-color themes > display correctly when it is run in the terminal outside of Screen (in > xfce4-terminal 0.8.10 on Linux Mint 20.3). > > Currently, I have 'term=xterm-256color' in my screenrc; I'm not sure if that > is correct, or whether I should be using something else. It's also not clear > to me whether this issue is a Screen or MC configuration problem (or both), > but I thought I'd start here where the colors are at least correct in MC when > run by itself.
If you run screen -T screen-256color or put term screen-256color in your .screenrc, then does it work? Andrew
