From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 14:56:49 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D67516A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:56:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from munk.nu (mail.munk.nu [213.152.51.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB1743FDD for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:56:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from munk@munk.nu) Received: from munk by munk.nu with local (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1AP8aU-000AGe-3c for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:56:46 +0000 Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:56:46 +0000 From: Jez Hancock To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <20031126225646.GB37786@users.munk.nu> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Questions References: <20031126154532.GA1924@tyr.systh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031126154532.GA1924@tyr.systh.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: User Munk Subject: Re: Best terminal type X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:56:49 -0000 On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:45:32PM +0100, Martin Moeller wrote: > Hello, everyone! > > I'm a little bit confused because of the enormous number of > terminal types available. I'm mainly working on the console > so cons25 is my default terminal type. Yesterday, I used > putty/ssh to connect to my machine and used elinks on it. > With astonishment I realised that elinks used different > colours and looked very nice. So I wondered why it didn't > show up like this when using my console. putty was using > "linux" as terminal type, not cons25. Happily, I set "linux" > my preferred terminal, but now mutt's display is totally > screwed up. So guys: What terminal type to use when working > on the console? I want all the nifty eye-candy! ;-) On a console my TERM env variable is set to cons25 as well, but mutt still uses colours ok as I have them set up in my .muttrc file. elinks doesn't use any colour the way I have things setup when I use it in a console, although in a putty session it does (using TERM=xterm) - not sure how to resolve that. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/