Re: colors in gnome-terminal

[folkert]

Oh never mind: I tried all options given there and none of them work.

(neither with your awk script nor my own teset
https://vanheusden.com/permshare/gnu-screen-colors.jpg )

https://askubuntu.com/questions/87169/using-gnu-screen-with-256-colors

Strange thing is though that at least in ubuntu screen is compiled with
that 256 colors flag:

screen-4.9.0/debian/rules says:
...
     --enable-colors256 \
...

otoh: 256 colors is not rgb.

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 12:48:03PM +0200, folkert wrote:
> Did you try:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GNU_Screen#Use_256_colors
> 
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On debian bookworm with gnome, screen removes fancy colors, e.g. the
> > following script from <https://github.com/termstandard/colors> which
> > is supposed to print a rainbow pattern, does not:
> > 
> > awk 'BEGIN{
> >     s="/\\/\\/\\/\\/\\"; s=s s s s s s s s;
> >     for (colnum = 0; colnum<77; colnum++) {
> >         r = 255-(colnum*255/76);
> >         g = (colnum*510/76);
> >         b = (colnum*255/76);
> >         if (g>255) g = 510-g;
> >         printf "\033[48;2;%d;%d;%dm", r,g,b;
> >         printf "\033[38;2;%d;%d;%dm", 255-r,255-g,255-b;
> >         printf "%s\033[0m", substr(s,colnum+1,1);
> >     }
> >     printf "\n";
> > }'
> > 
> > If I screen, ssh into a bookworm vm, and run screen there as well, the
> > rainbow pattern prints fine.
> > 
> > Please help me in figuring this out.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Nikolaos Chatzikonstantinou


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