no colors if starting screen in detached mode

[sputnik]

Hi,

there's no colors in my screen if i'm reattaching to session which was started with -d -m, e.g. screen -d -m mc.
This is only happening on freebsd. How do i start screen in detached mode but with colors?

[Carpetsmoker]

Which terminal emulator are you using and what is the value of your $TERM environment variable?

[sputnik]

xterm

[phoenix]

Screen apparently does some horrible TERM mangling and breaks a lot of colour-based terminals. There's a thread about this on one of the freebsd-stable@ mailing lists last month with some in-depth analysis of just how crappy screen's TERM handling really is (Subject: "csh Cannot open /etc/termcap after starting "screen"")

If you want a good, solid, working, non-TERM-mangling multiplexer, which much nicer default features than screen, then switch to tmux.

[BSDfan666]

+1 for switching to tmux.

[sputnik]

Everyone says 'switch to tmux', yeah, yeah, i know, tmux is better and so on, but i still wanna use screen and i'm sure there must be a way to start it without broking those colors. Everything's fine with openbsd or centos, this terminal issue only occur on freebsd...

[Carpetsmoker]

What is the value of your $TERM environment variable in screen?

you can get this with: % echo $TERM

[Oko]

$ more .profile|grep TERM=
TERM=xterm-color

[Carpetsmoker]

Originally Posted by Oko

$ more .profile|grep TERM=
TERM=xterm-color

This assumes you're a) Using some form of bourne shell, b) You're using ~/.profile to set it up and c) That the TERM isn't modified afterwards in another file or by an application (such as screen).

[Oko]

Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker

This assumes you're a) Using some form of bourne shell, b) You're using ~/.profile to set it up and c) That the TERM isn't modified afterwards in another file or by an application (such as screen).

I apologize to everyone for that post. My fingers were faster than the brain. I have not read original thread carefully. I thought he was asking for the colors in the shell. To answer your question. I use

$ echo $SHELL
/bin/ksh

Yes, I use .profile to set my preferences. I do use tmux and I can see the colors.