Hi Rami, I followed these instructions in "(efaq) Colors on a TTY" after building emacs from master that included your patches. I followed your instructions to generate new terminfo and to set TERM. But then emacs -Q -nw looks like this: [image: pasted2] I even tried setting TERMINFO env var to ~/.terminfo. But still get the same thing. Emacs build info: Emacs version: GNU Emacs 26.0.50 (build 32, x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.23) of 2017-02-18, built using commit 861ff2ba2cfc19065b13bf9b9670b44e1496c64e. ./configure options: --with-modules --prefix=/home/kmodi/usr_local/apps/6/emacs/master '--program-transform-name=s/^ctags$/ctags_emacs/' 'CPPFLAGS=-fgnu89-inline -I/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb3 -O0' 'CXXFLAGS=-ggdb3 -O0' 'LDFLAGS=-L/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib -L/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib64 -ggdb3' Features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK2 X11 MODULES xterm version: X.Org 6.8.99.903(325) TERM set to xterm-24bit What am I missing? -- Kaushal Modi