> On 14 June 2011 13:12, Eric Pruitt wrote: > > Outside of screen, TERM=xterm. Inside of screen, well here is the relevant > > line from my bashrc; my screenrc doesn't have anything that would affect > > colors: > > > > TERM=screen-256color GNU_SCREEN="active" screen -a -A -RR -T "$TERM" && \ > > screen -wipe || exit > > Ah, this invokes screen itself with TERM=screen-256color, which tells > it to talk to the outside terminal as if that's another screen, which > is wrong. You want to be invoking it with TERM=xterm-256color instead > (which can be selected on the Terminal page of the mintty options). > > Screen's '-T <term>' option determines the TERM variable inside > screen. Setting that to "screen-256color" to tell applications that > they're running in a 256-colour enabled screen does make sense. > > Btw, screen emulates 256-colour mode inside a terminal that only > supports 16 colours, by mapping the colours appropriately. Of course > you'll still only get 16 actual colours, but it's still better than > having colour requests beyond the basic 16 ignored.
Eric, please see the discussion of 256-color mode in screen in /usr/share/doc/screen/README.Cygwin. It includes the proper terminal settings, as Andy described. Patches are welcome if more information is needed there. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
