Can't enable 256 colors in ConEmu

Question

I\'m trying to get 256 colors in the fantastic ConEmu-Maximus5 console.

Update: Now it only shows 8 colors. I know because \'$tput colors\' output is \'

Answer 1

I also couldn't get 256 color support to work (the colors would show up, but they looked the same as the 16-color palette). I switched to the "xterm" color scheme and now it works in native Windows executables (such as Python) but not in anything that uses Cygwin. Cygwin appears to have terminal-escape-sequence processing that you can't turn off, which defeats the ConEmuHk injection.

This is documented on the ConEmu wiki, here.