Re: Using Emacs in fbterm.

[Gregory Heytings]

> So, I would guess that somewhere in the depths of the face construction, 
> there's a test for TERM being "linux".  Or, maybe, an inappropriate 
> terminfo entry is getting used when it's "fbterm".  Or something like 
> that.  Maybe the fbterm terminfo entry is inconsistent with fbterm 
> itself.

Indeed, if I set TERM to fbterm I now see what you described.  Perhaps 
Emacs doesn't know that TERM=fbterm means that only eight colors are 
available?

> I think it's worth fixing, whatever it is.

Well, it's easy to fix: export TERM=linux 😉