From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 2 6: 1:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.bsag.ch (ns.bsag.ch [62.2.201.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02A237B41F for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 06:01:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.bsag.ch (root@localhost) by ns.bsag.ch with ESMTP id g02E2xV21357 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:02:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from ns.bsag.ch (bs13.bsag.ch [192.168.1.13]) by gw.bsag.ch with ESMTP id g02E2xn21353 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:02:59 +0100 (CET) Received: (from hpr@localhost) by ns.bsag.ch (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) id g02E1b313265 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:01:37 +0100 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:01:37 +0100 From: Hanspeter Roth To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: thin mutt fonts Message-ID: <20020102150137.A10459@bs13.bsag.ch> Reply-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011231170058.B19838@bs13.bsag.ch> <20011231163625.GF21082@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <20011231163625.GF21082@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@allantgroup.com on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:36:25AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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