martanne / dvtm

dvtm brings the concept of tiling window management, popularized by X11-window managers like dwm to the console. As a console window manager it tries to make it easy to work with multiple console based programs.
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how to setup colors in Ubuntu / WSL2? #102

Open chiefjester opened 4 years ago

chiefjester commented 4 years ago

Hello there 👋🏻, I'm trying dvtm out, and I love 😍 the ergonomics! However, I am unable to set up colors. 😢 I'm kind of stuck and tried everything to make it work.

I'm using Ubuntu via WSL2 and having trouble configuring colors.

Things I've tried:

  1. setting TERM to xterm / xterm-256color
  2. setting DVTM_TERM to rxvt, dvtm, xterm and all sorts of permutation
  3. I tried tic -s dvtm.info

And I still get this: image