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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 "FreeBSD is a great OS"

(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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