Set Terminal to 256 colors?

[varnie]

good day!

i am fighting with xfce's Terminal and can't force it to use 256 colors. i've set edit-->preferences-->advanced-->$TERM settings to xterm-256color but nothing changed.
the command

tput colors

gives me

80

as earlier

at the same time the code

for ((x=0; x<=255; x++));do echo -e "${x}:\033[48;5;${x}mcolor\033[000m";done

shows me nice colors. it seems i missed something.

without 256 colors in terminal i am unable to use cool colorschemes in vim editor.

could someone help me please?

 

[SirDice]

i am fighting with xfce's Terminal and can't force it to use 256 colors. i've set edit-->preferences-->advanced-->$TERM settings to xterm-256color but nothing changed.

If you change this you will need to start a new Terminal.

 

[varnie]

yes, i tried but no luck.
tput colors prints 80;(

 

[mickey]

yes, i tried but no luck.
tput colors prints 80;(

You will also need a corresponding termcap/terminfo entry, that correctly describes the capabilities of the terminal, including that it has 256 color support.

Try something like:

set term=xterm-256color

or if you are using sh/bash:

export TERM=xterm-256color

Additionally, there is no termcap capability named colors, so tput colors seems to output the nearest equivalent, which is co, the number of columns, which is 80 by default.

What you probably want is:

[B]
     Numeric                 TCap    Description
     Variables               Code[/B]

     max_colors              Co      maximum numbers of colors on screen

So "tput Co" should give you the correct answer of 256.

 

[varnie]

Mickey, thanks for entry. i'll try those advices as soon as possible.

 

[varnie]

well, i tried "tput Co" gives me 8. any help?

 

[mickey]

well, i tried "tput Co" gives me 8. any help?

What's the output of:

echo $TERM

 

[varnie]

hi. here it is:

[xxx@xxx /usr/home/xx]$ echo $TERM
xterm-256color

 

[mickey]

As it seems, either termcap is crippled, when it comes to more than 8 colors, or the default termcap entries for 'xterm-256color' are incorrect, or both.

You could try to use the termcap file, that is included with xterm, which has the correct definitions.

 

[varnie]

mickey, thank you for info.

well, right now I haven't a time to checking this, but i must say that after the command

set t_Co=256

has being added to my .vimrc, vim started to recognize 256-color schemes!