On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 03:20:10PM +0100, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 02:51:07PM -0500, Jason Lunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > in rxvt-unicode, aptitude doesn't use color. I didn't realize how useful > > the colors were until I tried it without them. :) > > > > TERM=rxvt works as a workaround (see urxvt(7) for lots of useful info). > > The problem seems to be the code that allows you to set the foreground > and background colors independently. Because terminals work by allocating > "color pairs" (blah), this requires that the number of color pairs be equal > to the square of the number of colors. rxvt-unicode has 88 colors and 256 > color pairs, so aptitude's new color system is unable to deal with it.
If the color-pairs value is correct, it should be the limit (rxvt-unicode probably supports more pairs, but without the extended colors option in ncurses 5.5, that's moot since the regular ncurses only provides 8 bits for color pair index). Even with the extended colors, the first cut of that "only" supports 32767 colors (16-bit sign-extension limits portability of the feature across implementations of curses). > A sane solution would be to fall back to only supporting the lower > sqrt(COLOR_PAIRS) colors; 16 in this case. Better yet - most applications would only use a sparse subset of the available pairs. The application could manage its own palette. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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