Closed Wramberg closed 1 year ago
I realize the colortest-256 may be using wrong color sequences (ignoring envrionment vars or whatever) but I still do not know how to use the colors.
@Wramberg - have you tried it with TERM="xterm"
? I think 256 colours might be an xterm extension.
Been using pyte for a while now and it works really great for everyday terminal use. I have run into some trouble when trying to get 256 color support working however.
First of all, I have been using TERM=linux which I expect is correct since the webterm example does it as well. I havent changed anything else so basically I just take raw data from a shell and feed it to a bytestream attached to a screen. When reading Screen.buffer I would expect char.fg and char.bg to contain some new kind of new colors but so far it still just contains the standard black, white, cyan, magenta, etc.
When I run colortest-256 in the shell and feed the data to pyte I get a lot of garbage in the display
This is on
master
btw. What am I missing here ?