On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:57:20PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Ric Otte: > > > > I am running a testing machine and just did a dist-upgrade. This > > time when I start Mutt from the menus, it shows up in reverse > > video. Before it looked as if it was being run from rxvt, which > > is not in reverse video. Now it looks as if it is being run in > > xterm, which also starts in reverse video from the pulldown menu. > > I have looked around > > What do you mean by "reverse video?" Having come from the old days, > blak on white is reverse for me. ymmv. > > As mutt colors are somewhat controlled by s-lang, you can also > fiddle with the environment variable COLORFGBG (as in: > > export COLORFGBG='lightgray\;black' > > (or whatever you prefer) in your ~/.bash_profile. > > Assuming mutt starts up in the same way as an xterm starts up, you > likely need to tweak your Xresources for Xterm, however be advised > that any menu command that explicitly sets foreground and background > colors will override resource settings. Here's a few you can play > with: > > *Rxvt*background: black *Rxvt*cursorColor: green > Rxvt.font: fixed *Rxvt*foreground: wheat > Rxvt.geometry: 97x43 *Rxvt*loginShell: true > *Rxvt*saveLines: 2000 Rxvt.scrollBar_right: false > *Rxvt*scrollBar: true *Rxvt*visualBell: true > Rxvt.geometry: 97x43 > > XTerm*geometry: 97x43 xterm*background: black > XTerm*font: fixed xterm*SaveLines: 2000 > xterm*VisualBell: true XTerm*VT100*background: black > XTerm*VT100*cursorColor: green XTerm*VT100*font: fixed > XTerm*VT100*foreground: wheat XTerm*VT100*loginShell: true > XTerm*VT100*visualBell: true > > > When you change them, do an "xrdb -merge .Xdefaults" then run > rxvt/xterm. Some applications are case sensitive wrt resources, > though I'm not sure that applies to rxvt & xterm. >
This is beginning to puzzle me more and more. I can control the colors of mutt (basically I want black fonts on a white background) as root with /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color. For some reason it doesn't work when I put the color info in ~/.app-defaults/XTerm-color. It then gets stranger: Mutt ignores any color info I put in .Xresources, although this does affect the color in xterm. So changing the color defaults for xterm as root in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color changes them for both mutt and xterm, but changing the color defaults in .Xresources only changes them for xterm and not for mutt, and changing the color defaults in ~/.app-defaults/XTerm-color doesn't do anything. Thanks for the suggestion, Ric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
