I also experimented troubles with GNU screen colors, trying to use btop
(https://github.com/aristocratos/btop).
Impossible to have a good rendering with GNU screen, but works like a
charm using tmux or directly in console.
Does anyone have a good idea ? Because I prefer screen but I hate having
the awful display of btop in it :)
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Le 17/02/2026 à 05:04, Anton Kratz a écrit :
Running a gemini (cli) that uses 24-bit TrueColor or 256 colors inside
GNU screen results in distorted colors. Lots of background highlighted
in yellow, overall weird colors. gemini-cli is very hard to use like this.
gemini works when I am not in a GNU screen session.
When inside the GNU screen, $TERM is `screen-256color`.
What I tried:
Verified TrueColor support inside GSC using a printf escape sequence;
the output correctly displays as orange.
Configured ~/.screenrc with the following parameters to enable
TrueColor and 256-color support:
altscreen on
defbce off
truecolor on
attrcolor b ".I"
termcapinfo * 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'
termcapinfo * 'truecolor@'
termcapinfo
xterm*|putty*|rxvt*|konsole*|gnome-terminal*|xfce4-terminal* 'XT'
term screen-256color
These are my versions:
XFCE 4.20
openSUSE Tumbleweed, aarch64
GTK Version 3.24.51
X11, not wayland
Screen version 4.09.01 (GNU) 20-Aug-23
Anton
