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 <a...@deuxchevaux.org> 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 > -- > PGP: 2FF9CD59612616B5 /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign, > http://arc.pasp.de/ > Mail: a...@deuxchevaux.org \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and Usenet > Mail+Jabber: a...@noone.org X > https://axel.beckert.ch/ / \ I love long mails: https://email.is-not-s.ms/ > > _______________________________________________ > screen-users mailing list > screen-users@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
