Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 18:47:40 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm, color_xterm, mutt Message-ID: <199701151747.SAA20228@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970115115929.rhh@elmer.ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "Jan 15, 97 11:59:29 am"
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> Christoph Kukulies: > |Hhmm, when xterm replaces color_xterm, so why doesn't mutt > |(the elm-lookalike-but-fancier-colors-mail-reader) show in > |colors any longer. I tried with TERM=xterm-color and TERM=xterm > |and the world is two colored :-( > | > |Trying my backup copy of color_xterm brings back colors - just has this > |utmp nastiness. > | > |Has anyone tried it out? Would the new termcap.src help (donated by > |Xinside)? > > I've been running mutt for some months now in color with no problems. > > I dumped xterm-color (and xtermc on Solaris) as they neither one worked > flawlessly for me. Maybe this is slang; maybe the termcap entry. I don't > know. > > But try this -- works for me: > > 1) Compile mutt with slang (not ncurses) > 2) TERM=xterm > 3) COLORTERM=y I've been running mutt with colors fine with color_xterm and xterm-colors. But now, even with a newly compiled xterm from ports/x11, installed xterm app-defaults/XTerm app-defaults/XTerm-color That posted .termcap The entry #ifdef COLOR *customization: -color #endif in my .Xdefaults (I'm running fvwm95-2 and Xaccel on a TrueColor visual). - anything forgotten? ah, yes - to make libXaw95 work correctly I have *beNiceToColormap: False (in my app-defaults/XTerm) My go/nogo test is always: (put that in a little shell script) #!/bin/sh echo "[32mFreeBSD [31mis [33ma [35mgreat [36mOS[0m" (where the ^[ is edited ^V<ESC> in vi.) which should show you what FreeBSD is in colors :-) > > Randall > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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