Getting "WARNING: terminal is not fully functional" when using tmux-256color on macOS Catalina

[imomaliev]

Issue description

I am getting "WARNING: terminal is not fully functional" when I try to set. I could fix this by setting default-terminal to xterm-256color or by setting export TERM=xterm-256color but I am not sure this is the correct way to fix this. I pretty sure I am missing something.

echo 'set -g default-terminal "tmux-256color"' > test.conf
tmux -f test.conf

Required information

Darwin i386
tmux 3.1b
xterm-256color
MacOS Catalina 10.15.5
tmux installed via homebrew
Using default Terminal.app

tmux-client-16221.log
tmux-out-16223.log
tmux-server-16223.log

[nicm]

OS X has a very old ncurses with no tmux-256color you will need to either use screen-256color inside tmux or install it yourself. You can get it here https://gist.github.com/nicm/ea9cf3c93f22e0246ec858122d9abea1 and install with tic -x (make sure you use the system tic from /use/bin).

[rohchakr]

I also have a very similar issue
I am using gnome-terminal with 256-colors and italicized texts without any issues.

With tmux, everything is fine with $TERM set to screen-256color except italicized texts.

Setting $TERM to tmux-256color resolves the italicized text issue, but results in this new issue related to 'terminal capabilities'

My ncurses version doesn't support 'tmux-256color'

When I try installing tmux-256color using the above instructions by @nicm, getting the below errors (attached log file)
tic_errors.log

[nicm]

You didn't use -x.

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On Sat, 6 Jun 2020, 19:25 Rohit Chakraborty, ***@***.***> wrote: I also have a very similar issue I am using gnome-terminal with 256-colors and italicized texts without any issues. With tmux, everything is fine with $TERM set to screen-256color except italicized texts. Setting $TERM to tmux-256color resolves the italicized text issue, but results in this new issue related to 'terminal capabilities' My ncurses version doesn't support 'tmux-256color' When I try installing tmux-256color using the above instructions by @nicm <https://github.com/nicm>, getting the below errors (attached log file) tic_errors.log <https://github.com/tmux/tmux/files/4740779/tic_errors.log> — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2262 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AACKI442USTTPN3VHBFU2L3RVKCY3ANCNFSM4NWECFTQ> .

[rohchakr]

Oops, Thanks a lot!

I could run tic -x tmux-256color successfully,
closed all tmux sessions

Even after that for new tmux session also, I am getting the same old issues

Issue 1 : Warning terminal is not fully functional
for git commands - git logs
Issue 2 : E437: terminal capability "cm" required
when trying to open vim

Well, outside tmux all the git functionalities and vim works just fine.

[nicm]

What does echo $TERM show?

[rohchakr]

tmux-256color

[nicm]

What does infocmp -x tmux-256color show?

[rohchakr]

What does infocmp -x tmux-256color show?

infocmp.log

[nicm]

This is an unusual place for terminfo to be stored, are you sure you ran the tic corresponding to the ncurses library your programs are using?

[rohchakr]

Sorry, it is working now,
i had missed another instruction
after running the, everything is fine
/usr/bin/tic -x tmux-256color

I had another tic installed by conda package

Thanks a lot!

I was stuck for a long time getting my desired setup at place.

[imomaliev]

OS X has a very old ncurses with no tmux-256color you will need to either use screen-256color inside tmux or install it yourself. You can get it here https://gist.github.com/nicm/ea9cf3c93f22e0246ec858122d9abea1 and install with tic -x (make sure you use the system tic from /use/bin).

Tmux is installed via homebrew and comes newer version of ncurses

~/development/dotfiles % brew info ncurses
ncurses: stable 6.2 (bottled) [keg-only]
Text-based UI library
https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/
/usr/local/Cellar/ncurses/6.2 (3,913 files, 8.6MB)
  Poured from bottle on 2020-06-05 at 20:59:29
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/ncurses.rb
==> Dependencies
Build: pkg-config ✔
==> Caveats
ncurses is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local,
because macOS already provides this software and installing another version in
parallel can cause all kinds of trouble.

If you need to have ncurses first in your PATH run:
  echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/ncurses/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc

For compilers to find ncurses you may need to set:
  export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/ncurses/lib"
  export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/ncurses/include"

For pkg-config to find ncurses you may need to set:
  export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/opt/ncurses/lib/pkgconfig"

==> Analytics
install: 88,330 (30 days), 314,491 (90 days), 1,139,737 (365 days)
install-on-request: 2,162 (30 days), 8,467 (90 days), 29,202 (365 days)
build-error: 0 (30 days)

I have add it to the path it it didn't help

~/development/dotfiles % infocmp tmux-256color
#	Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/local/Cellar/ncurses/6.2/share/terminfo/74/tmux-256color
tmux-256color|tmux with 256 colors,
	am, hs, km, mir, msgr, xenl,
	colors#0x100, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#0x10000,
	acsc=++\,\,--..00``aaffgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~,
	bel=^G, blink=\E[5m, bold=\E[1m, cbt=\E[Z, civis=\E[?25l,
	clear=\E[H\E[J, cnorm=\E[34h\E[?25h, cr=\r,
	csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H,
	cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=\n, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C,
	cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\EM,
	cvvis=\E[34l, dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P, dim=\E[2m,
	dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M, dsl=\E]0;\007, ed=\E[J, el=\E[K,
	el1=\E[1K, enacs=\E(B\E)0, flash=\Eg, fsl=^G, home=\E[H,
	hpa=\E[%i%p1%dG, ht=^I, hts=\EH, ich=\E[%p1%d@,
	il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L, ind=\n, indn=\E[%p1%dS,
	invis=\E[8m, is2=\E)0, kDC=\E[3;2~, kEND=\E[1;2F,
	kHOM=\E[1;2H, kIC=\E[2;2~, kLFT=\E[1;2D, kNXT=\E[6;2~,
	kPRV=\E[5;2~, kRIT=\E[1;2C, kbs=^H, kcbt=\E[Z, kcub1=\EOD,
	kcud1=\EOB, kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA, kdch1=\E[3~,
	kend=\E[4~, kf1=\EOP, kf10=\E[21~, kf11=\E[23~,
	kf12=\E[24~, kf13=\E[1;2P, kf14=\E[1;2Q, kf15=\E[1;2R,
	kf16=\E[1;2S, kf17=\E[15;2~, kf18=\E[17;2~,
	kf19=\E[18;2~, kf2=\EOQ, kf20=\E[19;2~, kf21=\E[20;2~,
	kf22=\E[21;2~, kf23=\E[23;2~, kf24=\E[24;2~,
	kf25=\E[1;5P, kf26=\E[1;5Q, kf27=\E[1;5R, kf28=\E[1;5S,
	kf29=\E[15;5~, kf3=\EOR, kf30=\E[17;5~, kf31=\E[18;5~,
	kf32=\E[19;5~, kf33=\E[20;5~, kf34=\E[21;5~,
	kf35=\E[23;5~, kf36=\E[24;5~, kf37=\E[1;6P, kf38=\E[1;6Q,
	kf39=\E[1;6R, kf4=\EOS, kf40=\E[1;6S, kf41=\E[15;6~,
	kf42=\E[17;6~, kf43=\E[18;6~, kf44=\E[19;6~,
	kf45=\E[20;6~, kf46=\E[21;6~, kf47=\E[23;6~,
	kf48=\E[24;6~, kf49=\E[1;3P, kf5=\E[15~, kf50=\E[1;3Q,
	kf51=\E[1;3R, kf52=\E[1;3S, kf53=\E[15;3~, kf54=\E[17;3~,
	kf55=\E[18;3~, kf56=\E[19;3~, kf57=\E[20;3~,
	kf58=\E[21;3~, kf59=\E[23;3~, kf6=\E[17~, kf60=\E[24;3~,
	kf61=\E[1;4P, kf62=\E[1;4Q, kf63=\E[1;4R, kf7=\E[18~,
	kf8=\E[19~, kf9=\E[20~, khome=\E[1~, kich1=\E[2~,
	kind=\E[1;2B, kmous=\E[M, knp=\E[6~, kpp=\E[5~,
	kri=\E[1;2A, nel=\EE, op=\E[39;49m, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m,
	ri=\EM, ritm=\E[23m, rmacs=^O, rmcup=\E[?1049l, rmir=\E[4l,
	rmkx=\E[?1l\E>, rmso=\E[27m, rmul=\E[24m,
	rs2=\Ec\E[?1000l\E[?25h, sc=\E7,
	setab=\E[%?%p1%{8}%<%t4%p1%d%e%p1%{16}%<%t10%p1%{8}%-%d%e48;5;%p1%d%;m,
	setaf=\E[%?%p1%{8}%<%t3%p1%d%e%p1%{16}%<%t9%p1%{8}%-%d%e38;5;%p1%d%;m,
	sgr=\E[0%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p5%t;2%;%?%p7%t;8%;m%?%p9%t\016%e\017%;,
	sgr0=\E[m\017, sitm=\E[3m, smacs=^N, smcup=\E[?1049h,
	smir=\E[4h, smkx=\E[?1h\E=, smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m,
	tbc=\E[3g, tsl=\E]0;, vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd,

~/development/dotfiles % infocmp -x tmux-256color
#	Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/local/Cellar/ncurses/6.2/share/terminfo/74/tmux-256color
tmux-256color|tmux with 256 colors,
	OTbs, OTpt, am, hs, km, mir, msgr, xenl, AX, G0,
	colors#0x100, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#0x10000, U8#1,
	acsc=++\,\,--..00``aaffgghhiijjkkllmmnnooppqqrrssttuuvvwwxxyyzz{{||}}~~,
	bel=^G, blink=\E[5m, bold=\E[1m, cbt=\E[Z, civis=\E[?25l,
	clear=\E[H\E[J, cnorm=\E[34h\E[?25h, cr=\r,
	csr=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dr, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=^H,
	cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=\n, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C,
	cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\EM,
	cvvis=\E[34l, dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P, dim=\E[2m,
	dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M, dsl=\E]0;\007, ed=\E[J, el=\E[K,
	el1=\E[1K, enacs=\E(B\E)0, flash=\Eg, fsl=^G, home=\E[H,
	hpa=\E[%i%p1%dG, ht=^I, hts=\EH, ich=\E[%p1%d@,
	il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L, ind=\n, indn=\E[%p1%dS,
	invis=\E[8m, is2=\E)0, kDC=\E[3;2~, kEND=\E[1;2F,
	kHOM=\E[1;2H, kIC=\E[2;2~, kLFT=\E[1;2D, kNXT=\E[6;2~,
	kPRV=\E[5;2~, kRIT=\E[1;2C, kbs=^H, kcbt=\E[Z, kcub1=\EOD,
	kcud1=\EOB, kcuf1=\EOC, kcuu1=\EOA, kdch1=\E[3~,
	kend=\E[4~, kf1=\EOP, kf10=\E[21~, kf11=\E[23~,
	kf12=\E[24~, kf13=\E[1;2P, kf14=\E[1;2Q, kf15=\E[1;2R,
	kf16=\E[1;2S, kf17=\E[15;2~, kf18=\E[17;2~,
	kf19=\E[18;2~, kf2=\EOQ, kf20=\E[19;2~, kf21=\E[20;2~,
	kf22=\E[21;2~, kf23=\E[23;2~, kf24=\E[24;2~,
	kf25=\E[1;5P, kf26=\E[1;5Q, kf27=\E[1;5R, kf28=\E[1;5S,
	kf29=\E[15;5~, kf3=\EOR, kf30=\E[17;5~, kf31=\E[18;5~,
	kf32=\E[19;5~, kf33=\E[20;5~, kf34=\E[21;5~,
	kf35=\E[23;5~, kf36=\E[24;5~, kf37=\E[1;6P, kf38=\E[1;6Q,
	kf39=\E[1;6R, kf4=\EOS, kf40=\E[1;6S, kf41=\E[15;6~,
	kf42=\E[17;6~, kf43=\E[18;6~, kf44=\E[19;6~,
	kf45=\E[20;6~, kf46=\E[21;6~, kf47=\E[23;6~,
	kf48=\E[24;6~, kf49=\E[1;3P, kf5=\E[15~, kf50=\E[1;3Q,
	kf51=\E[1;3R, kf52=\E[1;3S, kf53=\E[15;3~, kf54=\E[17;3~,
	kf55=\E[18;3~, kf56=\E[19;3~, kf57=\E[20;3~,
	kf58=\E[21;3~, kf59=\E[23;3~, kf6=\E[17~, kf60=\E[24;3~,
	kf61=\E[1;4P, kf62=\E[1;4Q, kf63=\E[1;4R, kf7=\E[18~,
	kf8=\E[19~, kf9=\E[20~, khome=\E[1~, kich1=\E[2~,
	kind=\E[1;2B, kmous=\E[M, knp=\E[6~, kpp=\E[5~,
	kri=\E[1;2A, nel=\EE, op=\E[39;49m, rc=\E8, rev=\E[7m,
	ri=\EM, ritm=\E[23m, rmacs=^O, rmcup=\E[?1049l, rmir=\E[4l,
	rmkx=\E[?1l\E>, rmso=\E[27m, rmul=\E[24m,
	rs2=\Ec\E[?1000l\E[?25h, sc=\E7,
	setab=\E[%?%p1%{8}%<%t4%p1%d%e%p1%{16}%<%t10%p1%{8}%-%d%e48;5;%p1%d%;m,
	setaf=\E[%?%p1%{8}%<%t3%p1%d%e%p1%{16}%<%t9%p1%{8}%-%d%e38;5;%p1%d%;m,
	sgr=\E[0%?%p6%t;1%;%?%p2%t;4%;%?%p1%p3%|%t;7%;%?%p4%t;5%;%?%p5%t;2%;%?%p7%t;8%;m%?%p9%t\016%e\017%;,
	sgr0=\E[m\017, sitm=\E[3m, smacs=^N, smcup=\E[?1049h,
	smir=\E[4h, smkx=\E[?1h\E=, smso=\E[7m, smul=\E[4m,
	tbc=\E[3g, tsl=\E]0;, vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd, Cr=\E]112\007,
	Cs=\E]12;%p1%s\007, E0=\E(B, E3=\E[3J,
	Ms=\E]52;%p1%s;%p2%s\007, S0=\E(%p1%c, Se=\E[2 q,
	Smulx=\E[4\:%p1%dm, Ss=\E[%p1%d q, TS=\E]0;,
	kDC3=\E[3;3~, kDC4=\E[3;4~, kDC5=\E[3;5~, kDC6=\E[3;6~,
	kDC7=\E[3;7~, kDN=\E[1;2B, kDN3=\E[1;3B, kDN4=\E[1;4B,
	kDN5=\E[1;5B, kDN6=\E[1;6B, kDN7=\E[1;7B, kEND3=\E[1;3F,
	kEND4=\E[1;4F, kEND5=\E[1;5F, kEND6=\E[1;6F,
	kEND7=\E[1;7F, kHOM3=\E[1;3H, kHOM4=\E[1;4H,
	kHOM5=\E[1;5H, kHOM6=\E[1;6H, kHOM7=\E[1;7H,
	kIC3=\E[2;3~, kIC4=\E[2;4~, kIC5=\E[2;5~, kIC6=\E[2;6~,
	kIC7=\E[2;7~, kLFT3=\E[1;3D, kLFT4=\E[1;4D,
	kLFT5=\E[1;5D, kLFT6=\E[1;6D, kLFT7=\E[1;7D,
	kNXT3=\E[6;3~, kNXT4=\E[6;4~, kNXT5=\E[6;5~,
	kNXT6=\E[6;6~, kNXT7=\E[6;7~, kPRV3=\E[5;3~,
	kPRV4=\E[5;4~, kPRV5=\E[5;5~, kPRV6=\E[5;6~,
	kPRV7=\E[5;7~, kRIT3=\E[1;3C, kRIT4=\E[1;4C,
	kRIT5=\E[1;5C, kRIT6=\E[1;6C, kRIT7=\E[1;7C, kUP=\E[1;2A,
	kUP3=\E[1;3A, kUP4=\E[1;4A, kUP5=\E[1;5A, kUP6=\E[1;6A,
	kUP7=\E[1;7A, rmxx=\E[29m, smxx=\E[9m,

[nicm]

Right tmux uses the Homebrew ncurses, but you can't rebuild all the system applications, they are still using the old system ncurses.

#	Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/local/Cellar/ncurses/6.2/share/terminfo/74/tmux-256color

This is not where the system ncurses looks for terminfo, like I said, you have to install it using /usr/bin/tic.

[imomaliev]

So if I understand correctly, I need to run

/usr/bin/tic -x /usr/local/Cellar/ncurses/6.2/share/terminfo/74/tmux-256color

?

Got

~/development/dotfiles % /usr/bin/tic -x /usr/local/Cellar/ncurses/6.2/share/terminfo/74/tmux-256color
"/usr/local/Cellar/ncurses/6.2/share/terminfo/74/tmux-256color", line 1, col 1: Illegal character (expected alphanumeric or @%&*!#) - '^^'

[nicm]

No, either use the file I pointed you to already or generate it yourself from the new ncurses with infocmp -x tmux-256color >xyz /use/bin/tic -x xyz

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On Sun, 7 Jun 2020, 07:40 Sardorbek Imomaliev, ***@***.***> wrote: So if I understand correctly, I need to run /usr/bin/tic -x /usr/local/Cellar/ncurses/6.2/share/terminfo/74/tmux-256color ? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2262 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AACKI47O4QAC74QR7I6PSK3RVMY5DANCNFSM4NWECFTQ> .

[imomaliev]

Thank you very much! This helped. Now I need to wrap this in more canonical way for personal setup. Is it ok to delete xyz after that?