Arch Linux

Description:

Rxvt-unicode (latest version, 9.06), by default, only supports 88 colours, not 256 (like xterm can do):

[stijn@hermes ~]$ infocmp -L rxvt-unicode|grep max_colors
lines_of_memory#0, max_colors#88, max_pairs#256,

This can also be tested with the http://www.frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/data/256colors2.pl script (for the skeptics among us).

The strange thing is, rxvt-unicode already has a 256 colour patch in its own doc subdir in the sources, so I suggest we apply that one and fix terminfo like suggested in http://lists.schmorp.de/pipermail/rxvt-unicode/2008q2/000626.html.

Suggested changes:

# Patch in 256 colour support
patch -Np1 -i doc/urxvt-8.2-256color.patch || return 1
# Make it available in terminfo
sed -i -e 's|colors#88|colors#256|' -e 's|pairs#256|pairs#32767|' doc/etc/rxvt-unicode.terminfo

Effect:

[stijn@hermes ~]$ infocmp -L rxvt-unicode|grep max_pairs
lines_of_memory#0, max_colors#256, max_pairs#32767,