ls --color not working on freebsd?

[hanoii]

Hi! So I have this Freebsd I am connecting to from mac, I already did the termcap addition and compilation of the database and while now most things work, I cannot get colors to work.

ls --color just output no color

on iTerm they do work. Any ideas?

[Luflosi]

I can reproduce the problem. kitty correctly respects the color escape codes. This can be verified with something like printf '\033[31mhello\n'. Executing ls --color > ~/test.txt in e.g. the gnome terminal, where color is working and then cat ~/test.txt in kitty also works, so for some reason ls does not work with the termcap. For some reason adding

:Co#8:\
:AB=\E[4%dm:\
:AF=\E[3%dm:\
:op=\E[39;49m:

to the kitty termcap makes it work. I copied these from the entry for xterm-basic and removed all the unnecessary ones. @hanoii Can you try appending the lines from above? You need to add a backslash to the last line printed by infocmp -C xterm-kitty.

[hanoii]

@Luflosi yes, that makes it work for me.

[Luflosi]

@kovidgoyal why does infocmp -C xterm-kitty not print these four things?

[kovidgoyal]

No idea, you'd have to ask the maintainer of infocmp

[ghost]

Not sure if this is related or intended (as Kitty's multi-platform), but on Linux, Kitty doesn't seem to support the $LS_COLORS variable so color support is missing from things such as zsh completions, ls (full range of file types) and commands like tree.

[kovidgoyal]

LS_COLORS is not something the terminal supports. It is something for programs running inside the terminal.

[tertium]

By default, infocmp -C will restrict the produced termcap output to 1023 bytes, and thus will throw out a lot of capabilities, including the four above. So I would recommend the following:

• make an uncut termcap file using infocmp -CrtqT xterm-kitty. It will contain the capabilities Co, AB, AF, and op, and many others.
• remove all capabilities you can live without until you fit into the 1023 byte limit.

Here is my attempt:

infocmp -CrtTq0 xterm-kitty | sed -e 's/:\(pa\|%1\|&8\|F[^12]\|K[1-5]\|[RS]A\|Z[HR]\|ac\|c[hv]\)[^:]*//g'

This produces the following termcap entry of 1022 bytes:

xterm-kitty|KovIdTTY:5i:NP:am:cc:hs:km:mi:ms:xn:Co#256:co#80:it#8:li#24:#2=\E[1;2H:#3=\E[2;2~:#4=\E[1;2D:%c=\E[6;2~:%e=\E[5;2~:%i=\E[1;2C:*4=\E[3;2~:*7=\E[1;2F:@7=\EOF:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm:AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:F1=\E[23~:F2=\E[24~:IC=\E[%d@:Km=\E[M:LE=\E[%dD:RI=\E[%dC:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:UP=\E[%dA:ae=\E(B:al=\E[L:as=\E(0:bl=^G:bt=\E[Z:cb=\E[1K:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:cl=\E[H\E[2J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cr=\r:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:ct=\E[3g:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:do=\n:ds=\E]2;\007:ec=\E[%dX:ei=\E[4l:fs=^G:ho=\E[H:im=\E[4h:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:k5=\E[15~:k6=\E[17~:k7=\E[18~:k8=\E[19~:k9=\E[20~:k;=\E[21~:kB=\E[Z:kD=\E[3~:kF=\E[1;2B:kI=\E[2~:kN=\E[6~:kP=\E[5~:kR=\E[1;2A:kb=\177:kd=\EOB:ke=\E[?1l:kh=\EOH:kl=\EOD:kr=\EOC:ks=\E[?1h:ku=\EOA:le=^H:md=\E[1m:me=\E[0m:mh=\E[2m:mr=\E[7m:nd=\E[C:oc=\E]104\007:op=\E[39;49m:r1=\E]\E\\\Ec:rc=\E8:sc=\E7:se=\E[27m:sf=\n:so=\E[7m:sr=\EM:st=\EH:ta=^I:te=\E[?1049l:ti=\E[?1049h:ts=\E]2;:ue=\E[24m:up=\E[A:us=\E[4m:vb=\E[?5h\E[?5l:ve=\E[?12l\E[?25h:vi=\E[?25l:vs=\E[?12;25h:

I've got no FreeBSD at hand to test it, so YMMV.

[markusressel]

@tertium Is it necessary to limit the list to 1023 bytes?

I am trying to get this working on a FreeNAS host, and with the help of the comments in this thread it seems to work fine. However, when using htop the output is not colored:

while it is when using htop inside an iocage jail:

While appending the termcap stuff made htop work at all, it is not colored on the host system. Is this some configuration of FreeNAS/htop that disables colored output?