Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:01:37 +0100 From: Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: thin mutt fonts Message-ID: <20020102150137.A10459@bs13.bsag.ch> In-Reply-To: <20011231163625.GF21082@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@allantgroup.com on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:36:25AM -0600 References: <20011231170058.B19838@bs13.bsag.ch> <20011231163625.GF21082@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:36:25AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Dec 31), Hanspeter Roth said: > > I get all bold fonts in mutt. (This is quite ugly to me.) (I have a > > light background.) Can configure mutt to use normal (thin) font? > > That's up to your xterm. I don't know if there's a setting to display > bold characters as bright colors instead of thick lines. It seems that xterm belongs to XFree86-4.1.0_6. But I failed to configure the X version 4 server. So I'm running an old one. I have set: *VT100*colorBDMode: on *VT100*colorBD: darkblue This displays bold characters darkblue in `man' but still bold. > > > Can I make it to use ncurses instead of slang? > > Build from /usr/ports/mail/mutt (or better yet, mutt-devel). If you > build from source it will use ncurses from the base system. For some > reason, the package is built to require slang. Indeed. Building the port omits libslang. This displays nonbright colors in the thin font. Thank you. -Hanspeter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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