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Can't enable 256 colors in ConEmu

I'm trying to get 256 colors in the fantastic ConEmu-Maximus5 console.

Update: Now it only shows 8 colors. I know because '$tput colors' output is '8'

I have followed the instructions and activated:

I don't understand what to do with 'check off whether the buffer / slide.'

"C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu64.exe" /cmd ""C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe" --login -i"

    function prompt {

    local RED="\[\033[0;31m\]"
    local GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]"
    local COOLRED="\e[38;5;173m"
    local COOLGREEN="\e[38;5;113m"
    PS1="$COOLRED\u@\h $LIGHT_COOLGREEN\$PWD \[\e[0m\] > "

    }

    prompt

I have some screen shots:

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As you can see the command prompt looks very extravagant because it doesn't like the 256 color settings. If i substitute the variables COOLRED and COOLGREEN with RED and GREEN, then it looks ok, but it's not 256 colors.

More screenshots of the settings:

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And the last sceen shot it's cygwin's mintty. Everything is ok there. Full 256 color supported. It's a shame mintty doesn't have tabs. That's mostly the reason why I'm trying to move to ConEmu.

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Thank you very much for helping!!!

Solution

  • Bash does not send ANSI sequences to console. It tries to process them itself. And, because *nix terminal is generally only 8-color (not taking into account 256-color mode), bash uses 8-color palette instead of 16-color palette which is common to Windows terminal.

    I think, 256-colors works in mintty because _isatty returns zero in that terminal. But it returns non zero value under ConEmu. May be in future builds I solve this puzzle (how to create real terminal with PTY features for some applications).

    As for the question

    You have no need in 256-colors In fact. To redefine prompt palette you may use "Extend foreground colors with background" feature. In breaf - set up colors 16, 17, etc. in ConEmu, set prompt background in bash to #5 (configurable in ConEmu), and voila.

    There was a small bug in ConEmu "Extend..." processing. Use build 121016 or later.

    PS1="\e[30;45m\u@\h \e[34;45m$PWD \[\e[0m\] > "

    ConEmu and real console window

    ConEmu settings

    Following info does not match the question, but may be useful

    Current version does not support 256-color mode in 'whole' console buffer (limitation, yes, removing it in plans).

    So, you can go 2 ways