> I'm using a Perl script, available at > http://www.frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/data/256colors2.pl, to test whether my > terminal is giving me 256 colors.
Thanks, this is helpful. > It works when I run it from a vanilla bash > prompt, but not from within Screen, even after I installed your build. OK. Same here. I get a variety of different results with different combinations of Cygwin version (1.5, 1.7), terminal type (DOS, xterm) and with/without screen. Without modification, the only combination that gives 256 colors for me is Cygwin 1.5, xterm, without screen. All others give 8 colors, and the colormap is garbled in the DOS terminals (big surprise). However, in /usr/share/terminfo/s, there is a variety of screen* files, including several named screen-256color*. So it turns out that for me, running TERM=screen-256color screen gives 256 colors, at least in Cygwin 1.5. Can you confirm this? In Cygwin 1.7, I still only get 8 colors. I'll report that separately as a bug. Andrew. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
