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2.1.1 Terminal emulator programs

The following terminal emulator programs support 256 colors and set TERM=xterm-256color accordingly:

The following terminal emulator programs support 256 colors. You only need to set TERM=xterm-256color or similar; the programs by default set TERM to a value that supports only 8 colors.

A couple of terminal emulator programs support even the entire RGB color space (16 million colors). To get this to work, at this date (2019), you need three things:


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