On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 01:32:39PM +0100, Andy Koppe wrote: > Ah, this invokes screen itself with TERM=screen-256color, which tells > it to talk to the outside terminal as if that's another screen, which > is wrong. You want to be invoking it with TERM=xterm-256color instead > (which can be selected on the Terminal page of the mintty options). > > Screen's '-T <term>' option determines the TERM variable inside > screen. Setting that to "screen-256color" to tell applications that > they're running in a 256-colour enabled screen does make sense. > > Btw, screen emulates 256-colour mode inside a terminal that only > supports 16 colours, by mapping the colours appropriately. Of course > you'll still only get 16 actual colours, but it's still better than > having colour requests beyond the basic 16 ignored. > > Andy
Since Console2 is the only 16 bit terminal emulator I use, I suppose it would make the most sense to only not set xterm-256color when TERM == 'cygwin'. Thanks for the explanation, and sorry I forgot to hit group-reply on my last message. Eric -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
