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256 colour support / xterm-256color emulation

Asked by Kirok

I've successfully configured xterm to support 256 colours and Terminator seems to support it, but I can't get it to advertise the fact.

No matter what I try, a 'tput colors' returns 8 and an 'echo $TERM' returns xterm. As I've said I successfully configured support in xterm itself and it seemed I just needed to set 'emulation=xterm-256color' however this errors with "*** VTE ***: Failed to load terminal capabilities from '/etc/termcap'"

I've searched but with no success is it possible and if so, how.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

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Chris Jones (cmsj) said : 		#2

I'm not sure what's necessary other than telling applications to use 256 colours - e.g. I just have "set t_Co=256" in my .vimrc and VIM uses 256 colour themes correctly.

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Chris Jones (cmsj) said : 		#3

Answered after expiration, updating status accordingly.

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