GNU Screen : True color (24bit) support

Frisbee · 2019-10-04 17:47:40

Arch Linux + XFCE + XFCE Terminal

GNU screen seems to have true color (24bit) support in its master branch (as per here) which can be enabled using the option

#
# ~/.screenrc
#
truecolor on

as mentioned here.

I cannot get this working even with latest screen version 4.7.0 and I have my bash prompt using true color (to get Arch blue).

Does anybody have any info on this?

Thanks in advance.

progandy · 2019-10-04 18:59:34

You need to use screen from the master branch, e.g. with the screen-git AUR package. The v4 branch does not have any truecolor support.

Frisbee · 2019-10-05 03:43:14

Oh, OK. I thought the latest version is from the master branch; will try this.
Thanks for the reply.

graysky · 2019-10-05 10:33:37

Related but not what you ask: check out tmux. I used screen for years but switched, more flexible and powerful.

Frisbee · 2019-10-05 15:52:00

True color works with the git version of screen; seems like it will only make to version 5.

(@graysky : Thanks for the suggestion. I know about tmux and byobu; was wondering why the feature doesn't work in screen)

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