OK, that was uxterm.

But then I opened up xterm, set the env vars correctly.

Things were better (not black and white), but it was still only 256 colors,
not 24bit:

[image: pasted2]


On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 10:14 PM Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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Kaushal Modi