color bleeds inside GNU Screen

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color bleeds inside GNU Screen #22

Open DeeNewcum opened 10 years ago

DeeNewcum commented 10 years ago

The background color bleeds when running sometimes. One situation this happens is:

running Vim
inside GNU Screen
when connected from Terminal IDE on my Android

When editing here, if you press Ctrl-L to refresh the screen, the bleeding sometimes gets better, and sometimes gets worse.

If you drop outside of Screen, and try to do the same operation, then the color bleeding doesn't happen any more.

DeeNewcum commented 10 years ago

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DeeNewcum commented 10 years ago

Theory — This happens when you use a terminal emulator that can't do 256 colors, but inside GNU Screen, it still has $TERM=screen-256color, so all the apps try to use 256 colors.

Testing the hypothesis — You should be able to export TERM=screen inside GNU Screen, and this should fix it. However, this doesn't seem to work...?