x11/rxvt-unicode && 256 colors

[Fernando Herrero Carrón]

2016-06-13 20:44 GMT+02:00 Thierry Thomas <thierry at freebsd.org>:

> Le lun 13 jui 16 à 20:00:57 +0200, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>
>  écrivait :
>
> > El día Monday, June 13, 2016 a las 07:49:46PM +0200, Thierry Thomas
> escribió:
> >
> > > Le lun 13 jui 16 à 13:56:41 +0200, Matthias Apitz <guru at unixarea.de>
> > >  écrivait :
> > >
> > > Could you please try:
> > > $ TERM=rxvt-unicode-256color /usr/local/bin/tput colors
> >
> > $ env | fgrep TERM
> > TERM=rxvt-unicode-256color
> > $ /usr/local/bin/tput colors
> > 256
> > $ tput colors
> > 100
>
> The port x11/rxvt-unicode installs its terminfo under $PREFIX/share/misc
> and /usr/bin/tput does not read it, but tput installed from ports
> (devel/ncurses) does.
>
>
Nice explanation, Thomas. I wonder now what's the use of having rxvt
terminfo in /etc/termcap if it is neither relevant nor acurate.

Cheers,
Fernando