Dushan Mitrovich wrote:
Claws-mail looks very promising, especially after experiencing some
of the idiocies of Thunderbird and Seamonkey. But there is one thing
in claws-mail I would very much like to modify but didn't see how to:
Changing the background color of received email messages. I did see
how to specify the background color of quoted text in a reply, but no-
thing else. The default stark white background of the message window
is hard on my eyes (exacerbated by a cataract in one eye from an old
injury).
Nothing I found on the Internet has given me a clue about how to ad-
just main-window colors, and so far nobody on the claws-mail forum has
offered an answer to my query. Are you aware of any way to do this?
If the color scheme isn't hard-wired, I'd be happy to use modify some
config file from the command line, if I knew which file and what to
modify.
Bradley Giesbrecht <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't use claws-mail.
Make backups first!!!
grep -R color ~/.claws-mail
Experiment.
... and
Maybe this plugin will help.
http://www.claws-mail.org/clawsker
Brad, thanks for these suggestions. 'clawsker' sounded very promising,
but I found that there's no MacPorts version of it, and that it depends
on some things also not available (AFAICT) on MacPorts. Dependencies
include
make, sed, install, gettext and pod2man
I can do very rudimentary things on a Mac, but unfortunately building
a Linux program on a Mac isn't one of these. If you or someone could
point me to relevant instructions I might be able to carry them out.
The instruction 'grep -R color ~/.claws-mail' showed the file 'clawsrc'
had many entries for "color", and I'll play around with it for a bit to
see what I can modify.
At the moment, tho, I'm stuck because when I try to start 'claws-mail',
instead of it starting I get the Terminal message
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
(claws-mail:72561): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
My '~/.profile' already has
# To run X11 apps, we need:
export DISPLAY=:0.0
# ...and to use X11 as the graphics window server with 'gnuplot',
export GNUTERM='x11'
and I was able to start 'claws-mail' previously, so I'm not sure what
happened. I'll re-start and try again.
- Dushan
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