Michael D. Schleif wrote: > *background: white > *foreground: black > When I open mutt it > is white on black.
Mutt is not an X program, it knows nothing about X resources. see section 3.7 of /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz for instructions on setting mutt's colors. > Only when I do this, is change affected: > > xrdb -load ~/.Xresources > > Then, XTerm (Unicode) is white on black (not that I want this effect), > and mutt is black on white (which I _do_ want). I did not witness this behavior with the commands and .Xresources you provided, although I am running unstable which has different versions of all of the programs involved.

