Incoming from Richard Otte: > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:57:20PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > > > When you change them, do an "xrdb -merge .Xdefaults" then run > > This is beginning to puzzle me more and more. I can control the > colors of mutt (basically I want black fonts on a white background) as > root with /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color. For some reason it
Mutt colors are controlled by .muttrc > doesn't work when I put the color info in ~/.app-defaults/XTerm-color. Why are you bothering with ~/.app-defaults? Just stuff them into ~/.Xresources, then xrdb -merge > It then gets stranger: Mutt ignores any color info I put in > .Xresources, although this does affect the color in xterm. So Yes, mutt does ignore X resources; Mutt is not an X Window program. It doesn't need X. It _can be used_ in an X terminal program (xterm/rxvt/??), but it doesn't need it. If you want mutt to work right in both console (white on black) and in reverse video (xterm/rxvt black on white), you may need to call up mutt with different .muttrc's depending on where you are (console or X terminal) when it's called. Try some of these: xterm -e mutt & xterm -fg white -bg black -e mutt & xterm -fg black -bg white -e mutt & [in any console/terminal] mutt In the first three of those, you're controlling the colors of xterm, not mutt. In the last one, you (your .muttrc) is controlling mutt's colors. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
