Re: 'xterm -e mutt' doesn't show colors

[Pierre-Yves Ritschard]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:39:56 +0200
Pieter Verberne <pieterverbe...@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> When I run mutt (or tmux/colorls -G/etc) from xterm, I have fancy
> colors=] But when I run:
> 
> $ xterm -e mutt
> 
> I don't have colors =[ (I'm running dwm and I want xterm to start tmux
> automaticly)
> 
> $ cat .Xdefaults
>      XTerm.*.colorMode: on    # yes, two capitals
>      XTerm.*.dynamicColors: on
>      xterm.*.loginShell: true
>      xterm.*.scrollBar: false
>      xterm.*faceName: Mono
>      xterm.*faceSize: 13
>      xterm.*.visualBell: true

Add xterm*termName: xterm-color (or xterm-xfree86 if you prefer)
> 
> $ echo $TERM
> xterm-xfree86
> 
> All other settings in .Xdefaults are applied just fine with the '-e'
> option, so I don't think it's a problem with that file or with
> xterm-options; -title -T or -n .
> 
> Can someone help me with this puzzle?
> 
> Pieter