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Signed-off-by: Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com>
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@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ If it is not a symbolic link, @option{-q} cannot determine which quotes to use.
* Fortune cookies:: Displaying with fortune cookies.
* Ponification:: Ponify your fortune cookies.
* Running on TTY:: Running on TTY (Linux VT).
* Running on screen:: Running on @command{screen}.
* Running on screen and tmux:: Running on @command{screen} and @command{tmux}.
* ~/.ponysayrc:: Using the @file{~/.ponysayrc} file.
* Narcissistic ponies:: Getting ponies to think of themself.
@end menu
@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ If you use TTY and have a custom colour palette, you should also add to your
@example
[ "$TERM" = "linux" ] &&
function ponysay
@{ exec ponysay "$@@"
@{ /usr/bin/ponysay "$@@"
#RESET PALETTE HERE
@}
@end example
@ -694,31 +694,41 @@ If you use TTY and have a custom colour palette, you should also add to your
You should read more about this in @ref{KMS ponies}.
@node Running on screen
@section Running on @command{screen}
@node Running on screen and tmux
@section Running on @command{screen} and @command{tmux}
@pindex @command{screen}
@cindex @file{.bashrc}
@cindex @file{~/.bashrc}
@command{screen} will adapt ANSI colour escape sequences to your terminal's
capabilities. This means that if your terminal reports itself as @code{xterm}
in @env{$TERM} ponies will lose their colours; they will only use the lower 16
colours instead of the top 240 colours. By default, almost all X terminals,
including @command{xterm} and @command{mate-terminal} reports themselves as
@code{xterm} in @env{$TERM}, and some reports their actual name in
@env{$COLORTERM}. So before opening @command{screen} you use set @env{$TERM}
to @code{xterm-256color}, if you are using a terminal with support for
@code{xterm}'s 256 colours; this can be done by adding to your @file{~/.bashrc}:
@command{screen} and @command{tmux} will adapt ANSI colour escape sequences
to your terminal's capabilities. This means that if your terminal reports
itself as @code{xterm} in @env{$TERM} ponies will lose their colours; they
will only use the lower 16 colours instead of the top 240 colours. By default,
almost all X terminals, including @command{xterm} and @command{mate-terminal}
reports themselves as @code{xterm} in @env{$TERM}, and some reports their
actual name in @env{$COLORTERM}. So before opening @command{screen} or
@command{tmux} you should set @env{$TERM} to @code{xterm-256color}, if you
are using a terminal with support for @code{xterm}'s 256 colours; this can
be done by adding to your @file{~/.bashrc}:
@cartouche
@example
[ "$TERM" = "xterm" ] &&
function screen
@{ export TERM="xterm-256color"
exec screen "$@@"
@{ TERM=xterm-256color /usr/bin/screen "$@@"
@}
[ "$TERM" = "xterm" ] &&
function tmux
@{ TERM=xterm-256color /usr/bin/tmux "$@@"
@}
@end example
@end cartouche
Alternatively, you can run @command{tmux} with the option @option{-2}:
@command{tmux -2}. This also forces @command{tmux} to assume the terminal
supports 256 colours.
@node ~/.ponysayrc
@section @file{~/.ponysayrc}