Windows client question

[jharmn]

Just a question. I've never used a 256 color SSH client in Windows...I'm trying to use icat to produce 256 color output in an SSH session to my Ubuntu box, running iCat. I tried running ANSICON and plink, but that doesn't look right either. Any suggestions on the environment on a windows box that would look right?

Thanks

[atextor]

The terminal emulator itself must support 256 colors. This means it's not Ubuntu's duty when you log into it, but the terminal's (or the ssh client's, if it also provides the terminal emulator). I know neither ANSICON nor plink, but it looks like ANSICON provides only the standard ANSI colors (i.e. 16 colors) and plink is a CLI ssh client and has thus no influence on the colors at all. I think Putty does not provide 256 color support either. I would assume your best bet is to use rxvt-unicode (urxvt) in Cygwin, which should have the 256 color support. At least in this email from 2010 they mention that they have enabled 256-color support: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00784.html

[jharmn]

Cool I'll give that a shot thanks

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Andreas Textor <
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wrote:

The terminal emulator itself must support 256 colors. This means it's not
Ubuntu's duty when you log into it, but the terminal's (or the ssh
client's, if it also provides the terminal emulator). I don't know either
ANSICON or plink, but it looks like ANSICON provides only the standard ANSI
colors (i.e. 16 colors) and plink is a CLI ssh client and has thus no
influence on the colors at all. I think Putty does not provide 256 color
support either. I would assume your best bet is to use rxvt-unicode (urxvt)
in Cygwin, which should have the 256 color support. At least in this email
from 2010 they mention that they have enabled 256-color support:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-01/msg00784.html

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