Wrong colors in screen and tmux.

[sesm]

Using 'ponysay' under screen or tmux messes up the colors.

Environment: ponysay 3.0.1, openSUSE 12.2, reproducible in any terminal I tried (GNOME terminal, Guake, real TTY).

Screenshots from GNOME terminal are attached:

[maandree]

Yes, multiplexers seem to only allow the 16 lower colours, that are user customised, and filter palette changes…
The pony maker (https://github.com/maandree/util-say) not just implemented to make the best of out of this,
but it has all data collected that is needed to do so, however it will probably not look much better than vlc video in non-framebuffer console mode.

(marking as duplicate, and closing, as this is an already documented issue)

[sesm]

Thanks for quick and detailed response!

[JotaRandom]

For the record: VT100 and upper/more are the only capable of printing the esc[ used for print numbers indiferent if terminal version or type support that think that print the colors

and... this is dupplicated of issue #

[maandree]

I do not think, there is a an issue, specific to this, however, issue #1 is very similar and it is documented. It is also an a todo in util-say which is the program (well any other than ponysay actually), that should solve this, than it is just up to ponysay to implement it similarly to how KMS is implemented.

[sesm]

Just discovered, that tmux can be started with 256-color support: "tmux -2". This solves the problem in graphical terminal emulators.

[maandree]

Awesome, this will be documented!