On 22:20:18 May 10, Jesus Sanchez wrote: > Hi, I'm using OpenBSD 4.2, a clean install. > > I have experienced some problems using screen and X with colorsls. The > issue is that when I launch 'screen' on virtual terminals (C0,C1...) I > don't have any problem but when launch X, on the xterm/rxvt I have > open I can't launch a screen because the colors goes mad and shows > white on black combinations I have not set on my rxvt (I use some grey > tones combinations). > > I have set an alias for ls='colorls -GF' (color output) and this causes > the problems on a screen session. I have set the TERM="xterm-color" on > my /etc/profile.
As Stuart pointed out you should not do this. I used to experience hell since I used to make the same mistake. ;) Later life got simple after doing a code walk through of screen's source and figured that the problem is fixed by setting $ export TERM=rxvt ;) Funny we arrive at simple solutions through circuitous routes. ;) -Girish
