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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 14:01:52 -0400
From: Chris <kingsqueak@kingsqueak.org>
To: David Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Mutt colors in FreeBSD
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If the colors work in console mode and not in an xterm, it is your
TERM environment setting.  If this is the case, try setting TERM to
xterm-color or try using rxvt instead of xterm.

If you have no colors in console, there is something else wrong,
likely with the .muttrc syntax.

* David Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net> [010606 13:30]:
> Has anyone ever gotten these to work correctly?
> 
> I have the latest mutt port installed and I see that it is linked against
> ncurses and libslang:
> 
> /usr/local/bin/mutt:
>         libslang.so => /usr/local/lib/libslang.so (0x280c7000)
>         libm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2 (0x28129000)
>         libncurses.so.5 => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x28144000)
>         libintl.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.1 (0x28186000)
>         libxpg4.so.3 => /usr/lib/libxpg4.so.3 (0x2818b000)
>         libc.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (0x2818d000)
> 
> 
> I can only successfully set the colors involved with the default variable:
>  COLORFGBG
> 
> The colors set in that variable work at the text-console but not in xterms.
> This does however work in xterms on Debian.
> 
> Also... none of the color options I set in .muttrc seem to do anything at all.
> 
> Any ideas? :)
> 
> Dave
> 
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