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Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

David — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:18:09 -0000

awesome, thanks :D

Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

Dominique — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:18:50 -0000

Ahhhh ! Thanks so much for your post. This is the missing link from the web genome!

Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:02:49 -0000

"Ahhhhh..."

I experienced this first-hand when I got my colors working. Thanks, 2009; 2011 still has room for you.

Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

Mario García H. — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:32:48 -0000

Hi there! I don't mean to be rude. Really! It is just that I never liked Ubuntu's user base, nor Ubuntu itself for reasons like this:

Linux terminal (aka. console) is very, very different from gnome-terminal, XFCE Terminal, XTerm, RXvt, and so on. Thus, your title is misleading as far as I can tell. If you want to use another terminal, perhaps you'd stick with urxvt. It supports 256 and a lot of plus i.e. Perl scripting integration. Of course, there's ATerm for the English -only- speaker (writer/reader). Cheers and thanks for sharing.

Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

tim — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:31:46 -0000

i also get issues with the shell

Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

Brandon_Thomson — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:54:18 -0000

Thanks, I set this up just now on my linux box. To start the new 256 color terminal I just put a button that launches xterm in my menu bar/gnome panel. Looks great with vim inkpot scheme.

Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

Jadu Saikia — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:53:36 -0000

Nice info. I have a post to list the color combination
http://unstableme.blogspot.com/2007/12/colors-in-...

Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

joydivision — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:59:16 -0000

very cool.

Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

Peter Harkins — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:40:21 -0000

I blogged about this a little while ago and included info on how to get it working in screen. Hope it helps.

Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

JosefA — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:40:26 -0000

Ryan, that works, even in PuTTY. Brill. :)

Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

ryan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:19:36 -0000

@kmt

I see some strangeness in shell mode, but to be honest, that's the first time I've typed M-x shell in probably 5 years, so I'm probably not the best person to judge.

Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

kmt — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:14:28 -0000

Does *shell* work for you? I'm getting the control characters.

Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

piyo — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:40:24 -0000

I also wrestled with this combination, although for me it was GNU screen, Emacs 22.1, and putty on Windows.

First set the term to xterm-256color inside of Putty (Connection > Data >> Terminal Type String). Then, in GNU screen's config file .screenrc, set the term explicitly using "term xterm-256color" (more on "term screen-256color" later). Then, run emacs. If there's a problem with the colors, define a term/xterm-256color.el file some where in your elisp path with the contents of [1].

I recently tried "term screen-256color" but while the colors became 256 in number, the functions keys such as F3 and F4 did not input correctly. I am sticking with "term xterm-256color" for now.

[1] http://www.xvx.ca/~awg/emac...

Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

ryan — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:36:47 -0000

@JosefA,

Screen sets TERM=screen which reverts back to 8 colors. However, resetting TERM=xterm-256color makes the colors work again inside of screen. You could probably automate this behavior by setting an alias to emacs that sets that variable beforehand.

There is also something interesting going on with Multi-TTY emacs. When I connect to an already running emacs session with emacsclient (from within screen) it doesn't matter if TERM=screen. I still see all the colors.

This is kind of a non-issue for me; I really love screen, and I have used it a lot in the past, but I have been using it less and less now that Multi-TTY emacs merged into the mainline Emacs. I run everything inside of emacs now (ansi-terms for programs outside of emacs) and when I ssh into my box I just connect to my long running emacs session.

Re: 256 colors on the Linux terminal

JosefA — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:56:24 -0000

The bad news is, this doesn't work under GNU screen...