How to enable 24 bit color.

[sittim]

Are there instructions on how to enable 24bit color? What is the recommended terminal to use to use 24 bit color space? Can windows terminal be used or do I need to go with http://conemu.github.io/ ?

We are looking to move developers from Unix based systems (Linux and OSX) to Windows, to do that, VIM needs and tmux needs true color support, is it possible?

[garvitjoshi]

change in .bashrc file on home directory.

you can use my .bashrc file for that
link-

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/garvitjoshi/.bashrc-files/master/.bashrc

[sittim]

@garvitjoshi, change to what?

[garvitjoshi]

for 24 bit color like..

[zadjii-msft]

@sittim As of the Creator's Update, conhost supports 24bit color by default. Anything that typically would use 24bit color in linux will just work on WSL.

I believe that tmux doesn't have full 24bit color support by default, though IIRC there was a PR a while back into tmux to add support. It does support 256color by default.

Case in point: vi in tmux

[sittim]

@zadjii-msft , OK, so maybe this is my issue, I tried to download the Creators Edition update but when I tried it, got this:

What does it mean, do I need to upgrade, or will the update come to me?

Here is the system info:

[poizan42]

@sittim You have Windows 10 Enterprise and you try to upgrade using a Windows 10 Pro image. If you are not yourself a system administrator (in which case I would assume you would already know how to get updates), you need to get your system administrator to download the update and install it on your machine.

[sittim]

@poizan42, thank you this does answer my question...