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> Hello, > > On debian bookworm with gnome, screen removes fancy colors, e.g. the > following script from <https://github.com/termstandard/colors> which > is supposed to print a rainbow pattern, does not: > > awk 'BEGIN{ > s="/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\"; s=s s s s s s s s; > for (colnum = 0; colnum<77; colnum++) { > r = 255-(colnum*255/76); > g = (colnum*510/76); > b = (colnum*255/76); > if (g>255) g = 510-g; > printf "\033[48;2;%d;%d;%dm", r,g,b; > printf "\033[38;2;%d;%d;%dm", 255-r,255-g,255-b; > printf "%s\033[0m", substr(s,colnum+1,1); > } > printf "\n"; > }' > > If I screen, ssh into a bookworm vm, and run screen there as well, the > rainbow pattern prints fine. > > Please help me in figuring this out. > > Regards, > Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou