Hi Samuel,
On Wed, 9 Jun 2021, Samuel Thibault wrote:
AFAIK the Linux console does not support more than 16 colors for
foreground and 8 colors for the background (+ blinking). How do you get
up to 256 colors?
I use screen. I have this in my screenrc:
I will happily send a patch if I get it working, but I honestly don't know
C, so I'm most likely going to need some help.
# 256 colors
terminfo xterm Co=256
termcap xterm Co=256
termcap xterm AF=\E[38;5;%dm
terminfo xterm AF=\E[38;5;%p1%dm
termcap xterm AB=\E[48;5;%dm
terminfo xterm AB=\E[48;5;%p1%dm
What I've managed to do so far is
2. Use i18n colors for colors 9 through 15 instead of prepending "bright"
before colors 1 through 7
Patch welcome :)
I think the below function is what needs to be changed.
update_color_buffer
This function is only for the background color:
bi = (vc->vc_attr & 0x70) >> 4;
is getting the 3-bit background color, and the rest is indexed on that.
Samuel
