On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 05:31:37PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser spewed forth:
> No. His goal was to have transparent backgrounds if possible; if not, then
> a white background. I told him how to get a transparent background. I've
> got COLORFGBG="default;default", using S-Lang, and it works fine to have a
> pixmap background. I've no real idea how S-Lang works, I just know this is
> what works for me, and I got it from some FAQ somewhere.
Argh. It must be Braindead Weekend for me. Or week...or month...possibly
even year. I was using default as an OBJECT, not a colour. I had in my
config:
color default brightyellow;blue
I think I was doing that to try and achieve what I -wanted-, which was that
colour scheme as the default everwhere that I didn't have something else
specified...not just as a "don't colour anything where not specified". Two
entirely different behaviours. I misunderstood "transparent"'s meaning in
the manual, basically, and was shooting for an slrn-ish appearance.
The fact that "default" is listed under the colours and not objects should
have given it away, but it was about 6am when I worked on that (read: up
21hrs).
I completely misunderstood what I was reading. I really deserve a good
LARTing for that...or at least a swipe with the Clue Hammer[tm].
> It certainly is recognized. Do you perhaps have an old version of either
> S-Lang or Mutt?
slang-devel-0.99.38-8
mutt 0.95.7i
The problem, I suspect, is having put it in as an object, not a colour. I
now understand why it didn't parse correctly. Duh. :(
Now that I feel like a -complete- idiot... :)
I'll try to refrain from giving advice unless I know what I'm doing. Guess
I'm enthusiastic to give back to others for the help I received in the last
week. Thanks, all!
*dons dunce cap*
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