I added the line to my .muttrc which helped with the background issue:
color normal white default
Robert
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 07:13:48AM -0800, Jason Helfman wrote:
> Well the term is xterm.
>
> I have tried to export vt100 and linux, but I am getting the same issue.
> When I compose a message, though, the window is transparent. I am
> confused.
>
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:56:24AM -0500, Thomas E. Dickey muttered:
> | On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Jason Helfman wrote:
> |
> | > Today I applied updates for my Debian box, running Sid, or unstable. So
> | > Ncurses was updated, and when running mutt in an Eterm, before I could
> | > get a transparent Eterm with mutt. But now mutt runs a standard looking
> | > black/white term. I guess this is because of the upgrade, so I
> | > recompiled mutt. Same issue. Is their a way to resolve this, other then
> | > go back to the previous ncurses version ?
> |
> | what $TERM value are you using?
> | (what does infocmp show, for instance).
> | mutt is using that to decide if/how to display color.
> |
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