Re: Trouble getting 256 mode working in latest Ubuntu

[Dun Peal]

Thanks, Axel. Installing ncurses-term (with `apt install ncurses-term`
on Ubuntu) fixed the issue immediately.

Best, D.

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Axel Beckert <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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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