Re: Trouble getting 256 mode working in latest Ubuntu

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 04:53:32PM -0500, Dun Peal wrote:
> I recently upgraded to latest stable Ubuntu (18.04 LTS).
> Unfortunately, after building screen from source, 256 mode no longer
> seems to work. For example, if I launch vim, it reverts to the 8 color
> color scheme.
> 
> This was a problem with both the 4.6.2 release (which appears to be
> the latest officially tagged release) and the older 4.5.1 release that
> I've been using on Ubuntu 16.04 and worked flawlessly with 256 colors.

If I understand your problem correctly, this is not an issue in screen
but depends on the set of terminal definitions available on your
system(s). Usually having ncurses-term installed (on both sides, if
SSH is involved) suffices to fix these kind of issues.

See also the discussion in https://bugs.debian.org/898666

                Kind regards, Axel
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