What's the value of TERM before you launch tmux? My guess is that it is "xterm" rather than "xterm-256color". Ensure iTerm/Terminal is set to use *-256color.
On 31 Oct 2012, at 01:38, John Schmitt <marmalo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 08:15:50PM -0500, Mark Volkmann wrote: >> Just finished reading the excellent book "tmux: Productive Mouse-Free >> Development"! I'm working on a Mac. The book indicates that the only >> things I have to do to get 256 colors on a Mac are: >> >> 1) run tmux from iTerm2 >> 2) add this to my .tmux.conf: set -g default-terminal "screen-256color" >> >> However, it seems I need one more thing: >> >> 3) start tmux with "tmux -2" >> >> Is that last part really required? >> ... > > I found that it is required and that there's no setting for ~/.tmux.conf that > will remove the need for invoking tmux with "tmux -2". > > John > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct > _______________________________________________ > tmux-users mailing list > tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ tmux-users mailing list tmux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tmux-users
