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I have Arch without X and want to make my console solarized. I think I can't do that in tty, so I had installed fbterm and tried to play with fbtermrc, bashrc etc.

$ tput colors

256

$ xterm-color-count.sh -v

0

https://github.com/l0b0/xterm-color-count

Max
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  • you have to force TERM="fbterm" when the console starts. Also as Thomas Dickey points out, FBTerm uses "private escape sequences" which turns out to be decimal values, NOT hexi-decimal values like XTerm does, see: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/316878/solarized-colorscheme-in-fbterm/388587#388587 – Paul Wratt Mar 27 '20 at 13:40

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According to its webpage: 2009-03-14 Release version 1.4 "added private escape sequences for 256 color mode support".

However,

  • it goes on to say that those sequences are not compatible with any other terminal,
  • the developers made a custom terminal description for this named "fbterm",
  • that terminal description is not installed on your system unless you happened to do this, because
  • it is not part of ncurses (see terminal database).
Thomas Dickey
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