On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:45:13AM -0500, Peter P. wrote: > * Andre Klärner <kan...@ak-online.be> [2014-11-11 21:01]: > > Hi Peter, > > > > On Tue 11.11.2014 16:08:21, Peter P. wrote: > > > I am having a strange problem with different font/color behavior of > > > two instances of mutt with almost identical configuration files. These > > > two instances run on separate machines and otherwise have the same > > > behavior. > > > [...] > > > I checked several variables such as > > > TERM=xterm > > > XTERM_LOCALE=en_US.UTF-8 > > > XTERM_SHELL=/bin/bash > > > XTERM_VERSION='XTerm(312)' > > > and they are identical on both machines. > > > > do you use the exactly same terminal? Do you ssh to one of the machines? I > > would take a look at the terminal configuration, some allow you to disable > > boldness or switch bold and bright separately. > Thank you Andre for this advice! I am indeed shh-ing into one of the > machines, actually into the one where bold under the indicator bar > works. But that ssh session runs inside the same xterm terminal, which > I assume to have the same configuration in both cases. Ssh itself > would presumably not change font settings I guess and I tried with > identical .bashrc files and the difference stayed. > > If anyone else has a clue where I could be looking, I'd greatly > appreciate any hints! >
Each mutt will be sending terminal control sequences based on what its local terminfo definition says. There might be a difference in their respective xterm definitions. Use "infocmp > xterm-$(hostname)" on each machine. Copy the remote version to the local machine. Then, on the local machine run "infocmp -F xterm-<localhost> xterm-<remotehost>". If they are identical you will get something like this: In file 1 (xterm-local) only: In file 2 (xterm-remote) only: The following entries are equivalent: xterm = xterm Differing entries: If there are differences, that may be the problem. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (609) 477-8330 (C)
