Re: colors #8-16 are not bright

[Michael Schroeder]

On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 02:13:15PM +0100, Alain Bench wrote:
>     Is that dark #8-15 colors a bug? And is there a solution or
> workaround sufficiently generic to work with any terminals having 16 or
> more colors?

I think this is a bug, screen should not use the xterm compatibility
hack if the "colors" terminfo entry is greater than 8.

The xterm code works like this: most xterms understand 16 colors, but
have colors#8 in the terminfo. Because of this, screen writes both
the bright and dark codes to the terminal if $TERM looks like xterm.

As a workaround, you can add

    termcapinfo putty* XT

to your ~/.screenrc.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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