Re: Using Emacs in fbterm.

[Gregory Heytings]

> > 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?
>
> infocmp says it has 256 colors, which makes sense for a framebuffer 
> based terminal.

I don't think so.  It's framebuffer based indeed, so in theory it can 
support true (24 bit) colors.  In practice, text-based rendering is 
limited to the eight standard colors.