256 color terminals

• PuTTY 0.60: Settings > Window > Colours > Allow terminal to use xterm-256color mode
• Ubuntu 6.06: apt-get install ncurses-term
  
• Set TERM=xterm-256color
• Compile screen: configure --enable-colors256
• Edit .screenrc:

# terminfo and termcap for nice 256 color terminal
# allow bold colors - necessary for some reason
attrcolor b ".I"
# tell screen how to set colors. AB = background, AF=foreground
termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm'
# erase background with current bg color
defbce "on"

• Start screen: screen -T xterm-256color

References: 256 color emacs + putty, 256 color xterm (including some 256 color schemes for vim)