11:17 <sterni> where does the COLORTERM env var come from? and what values can it have?

11:17 <sterni> seems like it is mostly set to truecolor? true indicates 256 colors (?)

11:20 <testuser[m]> its set on slave.c line 290

11:25 <dnkl> sterni: COLORTERM is used by a number of applications to check for trucolor support. Not sure if it's ever set to anything but truecolor, in any terminal emulator

11:25 <dnkl> Applications typically rely on terminfo when checking for 256-color support

11:26 <dnkl> Truecolor == 24-bit colors

12:06 <sterni> I don't want to depend on terminfo :|

12:06 <sterni> although checking for 16 bit color is a bit silly

12:06 <sterni> you can probably do is TERM set? is TERM not "dumb"?

12:14 <dnkl> sterni: yeah, that's probably good enough.