On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > > > What does "echo $TERM" show before you attach tmux? > > > > > > again, this seems to be a putty specific issue. > > > no problems whatsoever on local terminal. > > > TERM is set to xterm before i run tmux, then it changes to screen. > > > > The xterm terminal description does not support colour so tmux does not > > attempt > > to use it, use a terminal description that does have it such as xterm-color > > or > > xterm-xfree86. > > This causes problems fora lot of people, I don't think there are any b&w > xterms > out there and recent ncurses does have setaf/setab in its xterm > description... so I don't see a reason we shouldn't just have a quirk to > override it. Could you try this please?
Shouldn't we consider updating our terminfo/termcap too? -d
