byobu not displaying dircolors properly

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...

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. :)

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Daniel, well, he downgraded from 3.33 to 3.5.

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 :)

Thanks, Hannes!

Hannes,

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

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

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..

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

Bookmarking it for looking deeper later.

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

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

export TERM="xterm-256color"