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Getting 256 colour to work on screen when starting up
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| With a version of screen that's been compiled to work with 256 colours: | |
| 1. Add the following into .screenrc | |
| defbce on | |
| attrcolor b ".I" | |
| termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm' | |
| term screen-256color-bce | |
| 2. Then start a screen session by typing: | |
| TERM=xterm-256color screen | |
| can use 256color2.pl script to check for 256 colour output. |
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