If you’re using tmux
or screen
as a wrapper for your terminal sessions (such as when using the Text Triumvirate), chances are that you are presented with the following error when you invoke a command that uses 256 color mode (such as multitail
or htop
):
Error opening terminal: screen-256color.
I don’t know if this is the recommended solution, but it’s a pretty quick fix and seems to work on multiple distributions: