Bug 693244

Summary:	ncurses only supports 8 colours
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Fabian A. Scherschel <fabsh>
Component:	ncurses	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	bazzawill, fabsh, mlichvar
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Description Fabian A. Scherschel 2011-04-03 20:54:46 UTC

Description of problem:

ncurses only supports 8 colours, 16 colours would be lovely!

[fabsh@serenity bin]$ ./identicurse --colour-check
System curses library supports 8 colours.

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2011-04-04 10:00:36 UTC

What terminal are you using?

This looks more like the number of colors supported by the terminal rather than an ncurses limitation.

Comment 2 Fabian A. Scherschel 2011-04-04 11:26:59 UTC

You are right. If I put

export TERM=xterm-256color

into my .bashrc, it works. Thanks for the pointer! :)