byobu not displaying dircolors properly

[Aaron Lake]

Using Byobu version 3.33-0ubuntu1.1 on Ubuntu Natty I'm having a problem with dircolors being displayed correctly. I'm using the popular Solarized color theme with Putty on Windows and iTerm2 on OS X. Initially I thought there was a configuration problem on my end, however, a bit more digging leads me to believe that byobu handles bold colors differently then a vanilla shell. After I modified my color scheme to set bold colors to be identical to regular colors (Blue Bold == Blue, etc.) the dircolors are now displaying properly.

I believe this is a byobu bug, and not a bug with the Solarized color scheme since the dircolors display properly outside byobu. Using a 256 color terminal my prompt displays properly too.

Commands ran in within byobu:
alake@foxery:~/askubuntu » dircolors -p > ~/.dircolors
alake@foxery:~/askubuntu » echo $TERM >> ~/.dircolors

### Restarted ssh session here

alake@foxery:~/askubuntu » alias ls
ls='ls --color=tty'
alake@foxery:~/askubuntu » echo $TERM && grep $TERM ~/.dircolors
screen-256color-bce
TERM screen-256color-bce
alake@foxery:~/askubuntu » dpkg -la | grep -i byobu
ii byobu 3.33-0ubuntu1.1 a set of useful profiles and a profile-switcher for GNU screen

See the screenshot for a further explanation.

This bug might be related to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/byobu/+bug/800195

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Howdy!

I suspect that this bug is related to Bug #727466.

Could you try adding:
  attrcolor b ".I"
to your ~/.screenrc and restarting byobu?

And if that doesn't work, try adding:
  attrcolor b ".i"
to your ~/.screenrc and restarting byobu.

And let me know how it goes...

[Hannes Koller (hannes-koller)]

Hi, I am having the same problem on my Kubuntu 11.04 install. I tried both settings Dustin suggested, but to no avail. Anything else I could attempt? Would be happy to get rid of this little annoyance. :)

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Hmm, okay, then this must be more widespread than I was thinking.

Two requests:
 1) Can you post a screen shot, so that we can see if the errors look
more or less the same?
 2) Could you try downgrading to some of the Byobu releases at
http://pad.lv/u/byobu? If you find any that work, it would help me
bisect the regression, as I suspect that this hasn't always been a
problem (it's only really coming up a lot recently)

--
:-Dustin

[Hannes Koller (hannes-koller)]

I have attached a screenshot that shows the difference. This was taken with byobu Version: 3.33-0ubuntu1 . Following your suggestion I tried to manually install different versions of byobu. Installing Version: 3.5-0ubuntu1 fixed the problem for me.
Thanks for your support!

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Awesome feedback, Hannes. I'll get this solved ;-)

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Hannes, can you take a look at my Comment #2 and get me some feedback on making that change?

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Hannes, one more request, could you try the latest byobu version from Oneiric? You can safely just download and install the Oneiric deb from:
 * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/byobu

[Blair Bethwaite (blair-bethwaite)]

Had similar problems on CentOS5, with both Byobu-4.1/4.29. I tracked the issue down to the shell environment aliases for ls, normally "ls --color=tty" on this OS, not being set inside Byobu sessions.

This appears to be due to the behaviour of the /etc/profile.d/colorls scripts and the fact that Byobu sets defbce in its Screen config, this results in TERM=screen-bce which is itself not listed in /etc/DIR_COLORS, and so the alias is never set. Commenting out the defbce setting in share/byobu/profiles/common fixes it without any side effects that I have noticed.

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

To anyone having this problem...

Could you try the suggestions in Comment #9?

First, try "ls --color=tty" and see if you get the colors you want.

Second, try commending out "defbce on" in your ~/.byobu/profile.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Shouldn't it be fixed with byobu 3.5-0ubuntu1 (comment #5)?

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Daniel, well, he downgraded from 3.33 to 3.5.

[Hannes Koller (hannes-koller)]

Hi,

interestingly commenting out the dbfce setting does NOT fix byobu for me (tested on Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 10.04).

BUT I recently found a very similar fix that works for me:

Edit /usr/share/byobu/profiles/common

comment out:
# attrcolor b ".I"
# termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'

restart byobu.

Hope this helps :)

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Thanks, Hannes!

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Hannes,

Could you try, instead, adding this to your ~/.screenrc:

attrcolor b ""
termcapinfo xterm* ti@:te@

[Hannes Koller (hannes-koller)]

Dustin,
sorry for the late reply. I just tried your suggestion on Ubuntu 10.04 (byobu version 2.68-0ubuntu1.2 ) and it did not fix the problem (but commenting out the two lines from /etc/share/byobu/profiles/common does fix it)... will try on newer version when I find the time..

[Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland)]

Found some info here:
 * http://aperiodic.net/screen/commands:termcapinfo

Bookmarking it for looking deeper later.

[Rami Al-Ghanmi (alghanmi+launchpad)]

I did not notice much of a difference in directory listings, however, there is a significant different when using vim. In the attached screenshot, you see two instances of the same vim configuration. One of them using byobu and the other one is not.

I attempted the fixes in #2, #13, #15 with no success. I am running:
* Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
* byobu 5.17
* tmux 1.5
* vim 7.2 (including patches 1-330)

For reference, this is the Solarized vim repo:
* https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized

[Rami Al-Ghanmi (alghanmi+launchpad)]

I was able to fix this by adding the following line to my .bashrc

export TERM="xterm-256color"