Tip #827: XTerm and 256 Colors

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created: December 2, 2004 22:03 complexity: basic

author: Ryan Phillips as of Vim: 6.0

XTerm supports 256 colors when compiled with the --enable-256-color configure option. To actually enable the colors set the TERM enviroment variable to TERM=xterm-256color Some of the colorschemes support the 256 color format.

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[email protected], December 4, 2004 20:06

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Anonymous, December 7, 2004 8:03

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Anonymous, December 7, 2004 8:04

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Anonymous, December 9, 2004 15:45

Great tip, thanks.. a simple compile away from this nice stuff, and no need for the GUI. xterm really is a great effort.. latest versions deal nicely with utf-8 too.. good work indeed.

[email protected], December 13, 2004 1:27

Any way to remove the first 3 additional 'notes' ? thanks for the tip :) any chance you might mention some of the colour schemes that do support them? (although I guess I could look at the color definition files to find out... but I get sidetracked enough as it is by this wonderful editor from that which I'm editing ;)

[email protected], December 17, 2004 2:27

A way to add xterm with 256 colors in Debian: * To know how many colors xterm has: strings /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm | grep ^color[0-9] | sort -tr +1 -n * Create a directory e.g. "build" * cd build * apt-get source xterm * apt-get build-dep xterm * untar sources * for i in debian/patches/* ; do patch -p0 < "$i" ; done * cd xc/programs/xterm * chmod +x configure * ./configure --with-x --enable-256-color --enable-wide-chars --disable-freetype * make * make install * install debian package ncurses-term (which contains the file usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-256color) * set TERM=xterm-256color * Use perl script to check colors: perl 256colors2.pl (google it if it isn't in your system) -- Ivan F. Villanueva B. --

Anonymous, December 21, 2004 17:51

Great tip! Thanks, Ivan! :)

[email protected], January 7, 2005 11:04

inkpot is one of the colorschemes that supports 256 color.




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