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Ruby goes 256-color in xterm

Daniel Butler — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:17:00 -0400

Two-hundred and fifty six colors in your Unix terminal, you ask? Yes, it’s possible, but 256-color support isn’t very common among the terminal emulators out there (Konsole and Gnome-Terminal don’t support it yet). And elinks is the only program I know of that supports 256 colors natively. So, here’s a little Ruby program that generates 256-color color cubes in Ruby. I’ve translated it from a Perl script, so it’s not very ruby-like, but it makes pretty pictures.

The source code follows.

"Ruby goes 256-color in xterm" by Brian Pence

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:09:14 -0400

256-color terminal for Windows

If you need a windows terminal client that supports the xterm 256 color mode, try AbsoluteTelnet from Celestial Software. You can download it here: AbsoluteTelnet In addition to the 256-color xterm, it supports ssh, telnet, dialup and direct serial terminal emulation. Lots of emulation types, character set translations, and the GUI is translated into 7 different languages you can choose from at install time.

"Ruby goes 256-color in xterm" by Michael Pyne

Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:25:33 -0400

Konsole now supports 256 colors as well, and will be in KDE 3.5.4 and 4.0.

"Ruby goes 256-color in xterm" by Anon

Wed, 31 May 2006 13:02:57 -0400

gnome-terminal supports 256 colors, the support has been in CVS for a few months, it will be out whenever the next release is made.

"Ruby goes 256-color in xterm" by PlasmaHH

Tue, 30 May 2006 14:47:36 -0400

Hi,

not only elinks, but editors like vim and emacs support 256 colors too. And for syntax highlighting, it seems to be quite important for lots of people to have 256 colors to choose among. Unfortunately it looks like noone of the developers of e.g. konsole cares. I wonder if this is because of that demanding customers get tired of beeing ignored ;)

"Ruby goes 256-color in xterm" by Sebastian

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:01:35 -0400

Putty is also available for unix and pterm (based on putty’s sources) is a rather nice terminal emulator with 256 colours support.