Re: xterm-color256: Different behavior between NetBSD 9.2 and 9.99.93?

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2022 at 21:21, Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I wasn't aware of this, but I see this too (I'm usually using
> screen-256colors, which is still working fine).
>
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2022 at 07:36:50AM +1030, Brett Lymn wrote:
> > What does:
> >
> > infocmp | grep colors
>
> $ export TERM=xterm-256color
> $ infocmp| grep colors
> xterm-256color|xterm with 256 colors,
>         colors#8, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#64,
>
> > say?  Perhaps the capability is missing from the terminfo?  I don't
> > think anything else could affect this, tput just reads the terminfo for
> > the terminal.  I have NetBSD sources from around the end of November
> > last year and I get 256 colours when I try the tput command.
> >
> > Also, are you sure you are using the system terminfo?  If you run the
> > infocmp command without the grep then the first line you will see is a
> > comment that tells you what terminfo database was read to reconstruct
> > the entry, the system one is in /usr/share/misc, if you get anything
> > else you may need to correct the rogue terminfo database.
>
> $ infocmp
> # Reconstructed from /usr/share/misc/terminfo.cdb
> xterm-256color|xterm with 256 colors,
> ...
>  Thomas
With [screen|tmux]-256color:
....
$ infocmp
# Reconstructed from /usr/share/misc/terminfo.cdb
screen-256color|GNU Screen with 256 colors,
        am, km, mir, msgr, xenl,
        colors#256, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#65536,

With xterm-256color:
...
# Reconstructed from /usr/share/misc/terminfo.cdb
xterm-256color|xterm with 256 colors,
        am, bce, km, mc5i, mir, msgr, npc, xenl,
        colors#8, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#64,
....

Chavdar



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