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BarnOwl has built-in support for 256-color terminals, assuming your libncursesw (and GNU Screen, if you're using it) support it.
Outside of screen, your TERM environment variable must be set to xterm-256color instead of xterm. If you're running BarnOwl out of the locker, the barnowl-256color wrapper sets this for you. But to get 256 color support for all programs, put something like this in your ~/.bashrc:
case "$TERM" in xterm) TERM=xterm-256color;; esac
In Ubuntu before 9.04 you also need to install the ncurses-term package.
As of Debian Lenny, the stock screen is built with 256 color support. To enable it, first make sure your outer TERM is xterm-256color as above, and add the following to your ~/.screenrc:
# Erase background with current bg color defbce on # Advertise 256 color support to inner applications term screen-256color-bce
(If for some reason you do not want to set your outer TERM to xterm-256color, you can teach screen how to use 256 colors anyway by adding: termcapinfo xterm 'Co#256:AB=\E[48;5;%dm:AF=\E[38;5;%dm')
For older platforms, the barnowl locker may have a newer screen under the name of screen-256color; /mit/barnowl/etc/screenrc includes the aforementioned additions.
In case you want to use 256-color Emacs inside screen, see Emacs bug 2650.