From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 05:25:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA13581 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 05:25:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from guava.blueberry.co.uk ([194.70.52.51]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA13573 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 05:25:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by guava.blueberry.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA14869 for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 5 Oct 1996 13:19:41 +0100 (BST) From: Nik Clayton Message-Id: <199610051219.NAA14869@guava.blueberry.co.uk> Subject: MUTT and color To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 13:19:40 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Is anyone using Mutt (a curses based mail reader) on FreeBSD, in color_xterm or rxvt, and getting it to display colour? I'm trying, and failing. I can run color_xterm (or rxvt) and use something like color_ls, which works correctly, however Mutt, which is also supposed to use colour, doesn't show the colours. I've posted this query to the Mutt mailing list, and the consensus was that I needed a termcap entry with colour support. Fair enough, but the suggested solutions ('setenv TERM xterm-color', when $TERM is already 'xterm') don't work. Another solution, from Brandon Long, was to use terminfo, with a private terminfo directory pointed to by $TERMINFO. While this approach worked on a SunOS 4.1.3 system which was exhibiting the same problem, it hasn't worked on my stock 2.1.5-RELEASE system. This is not exactly a life threatening problem (), but if anyone's managed to get Mutt and colour working on a FreeBSD system, I'd love to hear from you. N -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry New Media ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ Somedays, I wonder why I even bother chewing through the straps. ]ENTP