“Color terminal” isn’t a thing. Applications can choose to output ANSI escape codes which most terminal emulators will render as color changes. Whether and which colors get used depends on the value of $TERM, which informs the application of the capabilities of the terminal emulator.
So if your remote servers don’t have color, either $TERM isn’t being set or its value is unknown to the server. Most modern terminal emulators support at least the same escape codes as xterm-256color though so you can always try to export that.
i tought debian didnt have colored terminals by default? at least my server installs don’t.
“Color terminal” isn’t a thing. Applications can choose to output ANSI escape codes which most terminal emulators will render as color changes. Whether and which colors get used depends on the value of
$TERM, which informs the application of the capabilities of the terminal emulator.So if your remote servers don’t have color, either
$TERMisn’t being set or its value is unknown to the server. Most modern terminal emulators support at least the same escape codes asxterm-256colorthough so you can always try to export that.