Xubuntu, Ncurses and tmux-256color
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I’ve been using tmux-256color as default terminal setting in tmux for some years.
Recently,
in the quest of debloating my Linux environment and to get more space for more AOSP checkouts,
I removed the package rxvt-unicode from my Xubuntu work laptop.
As a result,
vim colours broke when I started it inside a tmux session.
Further investigation revealed,
that the 256 colour support was gone from tmux.
The culprit turned out to be the auto-removal of the package ncurses-term,
which was apparently only a dependency of rxvt-unicode and neither xfce4-terminal nor libvte9 and consorts.
Either way,
this was somewhat educational and maybe it will help someone else in the future.
Update 2021-12-17:
Fix link to dotfiles repo,
the master branch was renamed main.