On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:01:44AM +0000, Glyn Millington wrote:
> I spent a happy half-hour building mutt-1.7.1i last night,(with ncurses) fired
> it up in console mode - colours as usual - brilliant!
>
> Trying it this morning in an x-term I'm reduced to mono. Not a big problem but
> I like the colours and they do make reading easier. Is there anything I need to
>tweak either in the system Muttrc or in the building process that I am overlooking.
You need to check if your $TERM variable is set to something that
supports color (e.g. `xterm-color') or maybe set the $COLORTERM
variable.
> I'm running Mutt on Mandrake Linux 6.1 (beautiful) - and my Mutt-1.0.1 rpm
> supplied with that system does produce colours in an xterm, which suggests, on
> reflection, that the trick is in the compiling, but where?
AFAIR Mutt from Mandrake RPMs is compiled with slang, not ncurses.
Unfortunatelly, all versions of S-Lang that I've seen have problems with
Alt+<key> combinations (as witnessed in the Mutt's INSTALL file), so
I'd suggest trying `export TERM=xterm-color'.
Marius Gedminas
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