Under Terminal > Preferences... > (Profile) > Advanced, "Declare terminal as:" should be set to xterm-256color
.
This is easy with homebrew:
brew install screen
When this finishes you'll have a new binary in /usr/local/bin/screen
.
Add /usr/local/bin
to the front of your $PATH
so that your shell uses this binary, and not the one in /usr/bin
(you can confirm that it's using the correct one with which screen
). If you're using the bash, this goes into your .bash_profile
:
PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH"
If you're using another shell, then you probably already know where this goes. :)
Thanks a million!
If anyone is confused why, ATM, screen -v reports 4.0.3, when brew reports 4.3.0, don't worry about it, everything is fine.
[I thought the install wasn't working... but then after using ls -l on the bin file and seeing the sym link to cellar, I tried screen and the colours were working. [No more squinting at blue! Hurray!]]