Jason Helfman proclaimed on mutt-users that:
> What and where would I go about finding xmutt ?
xmutt (and its console equivalent cmutt) are shell scripts written by Thomas
Ribbrock - and are part of the rpm available at http://mutt.linuxatwork.at
FWIW, the scripts are attached with this mail.
--suresh
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 02:32:25PM -0700, Charles Curley muttered:
> | I have Mutt-1.2.5i-3 on Red Hat 7.0, and I use xmutt to launch
> | mutt. (Thank you, Thomas!) It appears that the F11 is not getting through
> | to mutt.
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#!/bin/sh
#
# xmutt - script to start mutt in a terminal window under X
# Thomas Ribbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, April 2000
#
# published under GPL
#
# try rxvt first
which rxvt > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
rxvt -tn rxvt -T Mutt -e mutt
else
# try xterm next
which xterm > /dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
# with xterm, the correct setting for TERM is not so clear,
# so we leave it to the cmutt script and hope for the best...
xfterm -T Mutt -e cmutt
fi
fi
#!/bin/sh
# cmutt - script to call mutt after setting TERM to an appropriate value
# Thomas Ribbrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#
# published under GPL
# set TERM so that an ncurses linked mutt will use colours
# If COLORS has a defined value, we assume that the appropriate TERM
# value was set before => don't touch (thanks to Thomas E. Dickey for this!)
# If it isn't set or is set to -1, no colours are defined and we try to
# set a different TERM value.
#
COLORS=`tput colors 2>/dev/null`
if [ -z "$COLORS" -o "$COLORS" = "-1" ] ; then
if [ -n "$COLORTERM" ]; then
# COLORTERM is set => assume rxvt
TERM=rxvt
else
# we guess some kind of xterm
TEST=`tput -Txterm-xfree86 colors 2>/dev/null`
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
# xterm-xfree86 is known here
TERM=xterm-xfree86
else
# not known - we try xterm-color
# NOTE: xterm-color might have the wrong bce capabilities!!
# The linux console, rxvt and the XFree86 xterm have bce, while
# xterm-color doesn't, so this is really last resort.
# (thanks again to Thomas E. Dickey!)
TERM=xterm-color
fi
fi
export TERM
fi
exec mutt "$@"
