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No? Of all the esoteric escape sequences that terminals handle the ones that change colors are well trodden.
by Spivak 3y ago
No? Of all the esoteric escape sequences that terminals handle the ones that change colors are well trodden.
- aragilar 3y agoThere are at least 3 different ways of expressing colour as covered by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors, and given the wide propensity of newer terminals to misidentify what they are (I know I have some additional checking in my shell startup to unbreak things if needed), and/or bad termcap/terminfo settings on older systems, sending terminal sequences that are apparently supported but are not happens surprisingly often (enough such that I've made sure to always install two different terminals which use different rendering backends, e.g. xterm and VTE).
- throwaway7356 3y agoWill you install a new systemd version on such an old system with wrong termcap/terminfo settings or attached to a physical vt100?