Bug 693244 - ncurses only supports 8 colours
Summary: ncurses only supports 8 colours
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ncurses
Version: 15
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Miroslav Lichvar
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-03 20:54 UTC by Fabian A. Scherschel
Modified: 2011-04-04 11:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-04-04 11:26:59 UTC
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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! :)
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