Using GNU Screen with 256 colors - Ask Ubuntu
https://askubuntu.com/questions/87169When I use the command tput colors I get the output 8. When I start screen and run the script, I get 16 colors mapped to 256 colors - there are large blocks of solid color. When I run tput colors I get 256 (when term screen-256color is in my .screenrc). edit: I got it to work - I didn't configure screen with the --enable-colors256 option.