From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 22 03:56:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA21928 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 03:56:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whqvax.picker.com (whqvax.picker.com [144.54.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id DAA21909; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 03:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ct.picker.com by whqvax.picker.com with SMTP; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 6:53:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from elmer.ct.picker.com ([144.54.57.34]) by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA13633; Tue, 22 Jul 97 06:53:34 EDT Received: by elmer.ct.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id GAA25966; Tue, 22 Jul 1997 06:51:19 -0400 Message-Id: <19970722065118.42843@ct.picker.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 06:51:18 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: andreas.klemm@wup.de, andreas@klemm.gtn.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FBSD 2.2.2 - problem: no colors when using mutt in a color xterm References: <19970722111536.51938@wup.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76 In-Reply-To: <19970722111536.51938@wup.de>; from Andreas Klemm on Tue, Jul 22, 1997 at 11:15:36AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andreas Klemm: |At home I'm using FreeBSD-current and X11R6.3. There it's possible, to get |mutt configured to use colors. | |I start xterm +xm -tn xterm-color, start mutt from within this |xterm session and get nice colors. | |When doing this on FreeBSD 2.2.2 using X11R6.2 (the FreeBSD version |shipped with 2.2.2), then I only get black and white display. | |Is some solor support not implemented in 2.2.2 ??? Yes, you have at least two options: Option #1: If compiled with either ncurses or Slang: setenv TERM xterm-color to activate a terminal entry that has the color-capability set. This has the conn that the xterm-color entry isn't as well written as the xterm one, so some of your terminal emulation won't work as well. Read on... Option #2: If compiled with Slang, just use your regular "xterm" terminal entry (i.e. leave TERM set to "xterm") and: setenv COLORTERM y I recommend compiling with Slang. I've been running with it on FreeBSD and Solaris for a good while now, doing color with both mutt and slrn (a news reader). Randall