notcurses/doc/man/man1/notcurses-info.1.md

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NAME

notcurses-info - Display information about the terminal environment

SYNOPSIS

notcurses-info

DESCRIPTION

notcurses-info prints all the information it knows about the current terminal environment, including material loaded from terminfo(5) (based on the TERM environment variable), replies from the terminal in response to our queries, and built-in heuristics.

The Unicode half block, quadrant, sextant, and Braille glyphs are all included in the output. If their appearance is irregular, it might behoove you to choose another font.

The first five lines (the Notcurses initialization banner; see notcurses_init(3)) provide:

• The Notcurses version and the derived terminal name, possibly including the terminal version. If Notcurses was able to unambiguously query the connected terminal, the internal name for the terminal will be shown. Otherwise, the terminal described by the TERM environment variable will be displayed. The terminal version is only acquired via query.
• The current cell geometry, cell-pixel geometry, and the derived window pixel geometry, the size of the crender structure, the number of colors in the palette, and whether RGB TrueColor is supported.
• The compiler name and version used to build Notcurses, the size of the nccell structure, and the endianness with which Notcurses was compiled. This buildtime endianness must match the runtime endianness.
• The version of libterminfo against which Notcurses was compiled.
• The version and name of the multimedia backend.

The next five lines describe properties of the terminal environment:

• The first line indicates that a given capability is present with a plus sign ('+'), or not present/detected with a minus sign ('-'):
  • rgb: Colors can be specified as RGB wit eight bits/channel
  • ccc: Palette can be reprogrammed
  • af: Foreground color can be set
  • ab: Background color can be set
  • sum: Synchronized Update Mode is supported
  • u7: Cursor position reporting
  • cup: Cursor can be arbitrarily placed
  • vpa: Cursor can be moved to an absolute vertical coordinate
  • hpa: Cursor can be moved to an absolute horizontal coordinate
  • sgr0: Styling can be reset via a single escape
  • op: Colors can be reset via a single escape
  • fgop: Foreground can be reset via a single escape
  • bgop: Background can be reset via a single escape

OPTIONS

NOTES

The behavior of notcurses-info (and indeed all of Notcurses) depends on the TERM and LANG environment variables, the installed POSIX locales, and the installed terminfo(5) databases.

SEE ALSO

tack(1), notcurses(3), terminfo(5)