On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 10:56:04PM +0100, Nigel Tamplin wrote:
> How do the color names in the muttrc file related to real colors on
> the screen.
>
> I am running mutt on Solaris within an xterm.
>
> If I set TERM=vt100, everything works, but only in black and white.
>
> If I leave TERM=xterm, then I get colors, however the only colours that seem
> to work are white, brightyellow and black.
>
> Meaning that if the muttrc contains the line:
>
> color tree magenta default
>
> Then the magenta won't show up at all, making my thread trees black on black.
>
> What do I need to do?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
I solved my own problem, it was to do with the X resources.
I'm using rxvt on Sparc Solaris 7.
Find out where your XResrouces are kept, ~/.XDefaults,
/etc/dt/app-defaults/C/???, /etc/dt/config/C/sys.resources etc..
Then for rxvt you will need to add:
rxvt*color0: #000000
rxvt*color1: #a80000
rxvt*color2: #00a800
rxvt*color3: #a8a800
rxvt*color4: #0000a8
rxvt*color5: #a800a8
rxvt*color6: #00a8a8
rxvt*color7: #a8a8a8
rxvt*color8: #000054
rxvt*color9: #ff0054
rxvt*color10: #00ff54
rxvt*color11: #ffff54
rxvt*color12: #0000ff
rxvt*color13: #ff00ff
rxvt*color14: #00ffff
rxvt*color15: #ffffff
And then there was color! Even magenta!
In my particular instance I edited the rxvt src/Makefile (after
running ./configure) and added a
-DXAPPLOADDIR=\"/etc/dt/app-defaults/C\" to the DEFS, I then put the
above color definitions in a file named /etc/dt/app-defaults/Rxvt,
leaving off the leading "rxvt" from each line: thus
*color0: #000000
*color1: #a80000
*color2: #00a800
etc...
--
Nigel Tamplin.
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
