[Midnight Commander] #4378: MC does not recognize XTerm as a terminal emulator that supports 256-colors
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Reporter: mleonov | Type: defect
Status: new | Priority: major
Milestone: Future Releases | Component: mc-core
Version: master | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Branch state: no branch | Votes for changeset:
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What version of Midnight Commander is used?
GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.19
This issue was discovered when using the `mc` (x86_64) package that is
available from `dnf` on RHEL 8.6.:
Installed Packages
Name : mc
Epoch : 1
Version : 4.8.19
Release : 9.el8
Architecture : x86_64
Size : 6.8 M
Source : mc-4.8.19-9.el8.src.rpm
Repository : @System
From repo : AppStream
What steps will reproduce the problem?
Use the default package manager to install the XTerm package
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xterm, https://invisible-island.net/xterm/)
that is available for your Linux distribution.
Options > Appearance > Skin > Pick any skin the name of which ends with
`256`.
What is the expected output?
XTerm supports 256 colors, so any 256-color skin should be applied
nominally.
What do you see instead?
Error message:
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Error
Unable to use '<picked_skin_name>' skin with 256 colors support on non-256
colors terminal. Default skin has been loaded.
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Ticket URL: <http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/4378>
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Ticket System
Reporter: mleonov | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: mc-tty | Version: master
Resolution: invalid | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Branch state: no branch | Votes for changeset:
Changes (by andrew_b):
* status: new => closed
* component: mc-core => mc-tty
* resolution: => invalid
* milestone: Future Releases =>
Comment:
4.8.19 is 5-years old. For old mc, please send bugreports to bug tracker
of your Linux distro.
In order to use 256 colors skins, set `XTERM=xterm-256color`.
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Ticket URL: <http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/4378#comment:1>