On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Andre Wobst wrote:
> 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).
XFree86 xterm does color (but neither dtterm nor XFree86 xterm normally
do color if $TERM is "xterm"). aixterm should be comparable to dtterm.
> 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.
yes - that's true. But I recommended first that he try it with IBM
curses since it's less work. (For ncurses, he should be careful to
configure it disabling overwrite).
> 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 ...
The dtterm terminfo in ncurses should be correct (I think). Though I've
run into a bug with dtterm not related to color (one with scrolling,
which I think I mention on my xterm faq). I use the dtterm terminfo
occasionally on Solaris, usually with default colors (though I don't
find the background makes it easy to read, so I use xterm if I'm
doing much editing).
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