Hi,
I'm running mutt 1.2.4 (with some additional patches) here on
AIX 4.3.3 and have color support working at least in some terminal
emulators (not all are able to handle color). Which one do you use?
One where it's working is the dtterm (which I used to use for a long
time). My new installed KDE 2.0.1 (from ibm -- thanks to them) works
also (and has a very nice terminal emulator -- thanks to the kde
people!), but I have to change the TERM variable (=xterm) to something
that understands colors (xterm doesn't AFAIK, but for example
TERM=dtterm works).
My mutt -v is:
Mutt 1.2.4i (2000-07-07)
Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
System: AIX 4.3 [using ncurses 5.0]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK -USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
+USE_IMAP -USE_GSS +USE_SSL -USE_POP +HAVE_REGCOMP
-USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail"
SHAREDIR="/server/usr/lib/mutt/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/server/usr/lib/mutt/etc"
ISPELL="/server/usr/bin/ispell"
To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
To report a bug, please use the muttbug utility.
On 09.02.01, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I asked about this a while ago, sorry for coming back but I lost the answers
> > if there were any.
> >
> > I'm trying to build Mutt for AIX. It compiles fine, but I can't get it to
> > display colors in the index, pager or anywhere else.
> >
> > anubis~/alu/tif/al013492> echo $TERM
> > vt100
>
> but what type of terminal emulator are you using?
> (Although "vt100" may happen to work for vi, etc., it is unlikely that
> you are using a vt100).
You have to use some terminal emulations which are able to show
colors. vt100 definitely doesn't.
> > This is Mutt 1.3.14 with no configure params.
> > I just saw this in configure:
> > checking for use_default_colors declaration... no
>
> That's indirectly a check for ncurses. Although you could build mutt with
> ncurses, you should be able to build (and display colors) with AIX's
> curses.
It's possible to get the colors working with the IBM curses, but you
will went into problems with the background color, because there is no
default-color (or whatever it's called) using IBM curses. And if you
want something else then the black or white background (or other base
colors on a terminal) you'll have a bad background color behavior.
You better try it with ncurses. There you can get the background color
working correctly. You'll need a correct terminfo entry for your
terminal which might not be within ncurses from scratch (I remember I
had problems with dtterm, but you can find a correct dtterm terminfo
entry in the web or mail to me directly -- I can send it to you) and
then you should be able to run mutt with all the nice colors ...
Hope you'll success ...
André
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