Posts tagged ‘256 colors’
I’ve done a lot over the past few months to make my time spent on the command line a bit more enjoyable and easier to use. Hopefully you’ll find these steps useful as well.
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These can all be used by urxvt, xterm, aterm, and others. Enjoy.
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XTerm and most other modern terminal emulaters support 256 colors.
To enable colors on XTerm you will need to run the configure scripts with the --enable-256-color switch, in addition you may also need to set your TERM environment variable to xterm-256color.
rxvt-unicode (commonly called urxvt) already has 88 color support, and for most things, this is fine. But sometimes you just want a tad more, maybe for vim color themes.
So here’s my build log of compiling rxvt-unicode with the 256 color patch on Ubuntu Hardy, and debianizing (packaging) it.
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