Hi Frank, > I have a problem during startup of mutt on a fast hardware. > Starting mutt with > xterm -geometry 220x80+70+100 -vb -T "mutt Mail" -j -e mutt > produces a large xterm, but mutt only uses 1/3 of the lines. > <...> I use a script Xmutt and the "essential" line is: xterm -T "Mail for ${USER}@${HOSTNAME}" -geometry 85x47+100+10 -e mutt $* It work's well for me. I'll append the script and an rc-file (nothing great, just shell scripts). Ciao for now, Dirk -- Dirk Ruediger, Rostock, Germany Let's not complicate our relationship by trying to communicate with each other.
#!/bin/sh LANG=de_DE LANGUAGE=de_DE LC_ALL=de_DE EDITOR=vi VISUAL=vi FCEDIT=vi MUTTALIASFILE=~/.mutt/aliases PATH=$PATH:~/bin MUTTTITLE="Post fuer ${USER}@${HOSTNAME}" MUTTFONT=10x20 MUTTBG=black MUTTFG=white MUTTGEOMETRY="85x47+100+10" [ -r ~/.xmuttrc ] && source ~/.xmuttrc ( xterm \ -T "$MUTTTITLE" \ -fn $MUTTFONT \ -bg $MUTTBG \ -fg $MUTTFG \ -geometry $MUTTGEOMETRY -e mutt $* ) 2> ~/.Xmutt.log
MUTTALIASFILE=~/.mutt/aliases MUTTTITLE="Postfach von ${USER}@${HOSTNAME}" MUTTFONT=10x20 MUTTBG=black MUTTFG=white MUTTGEOMETRY="95x46+100+10"