Bradley Giesbrecht writes:
On Aug 30, 2010, at 3:53 PM, [email protected] wrote:
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
All of those are most likely installed on your system.
AudioZeus:video brad$ which make
/usr/bin/make
AudioZeus:video brad$ which sed
/usr/bin/sed
AudioZeus:video brad$ which install
/usr/bin/install
AudioZeus:video brad$ which gettext
/opt/local/bin/gettext
AudioZeus:video brad$ which pod2man
/opt/local/bin/pod2man
Brad, you're right. I checked and they're all there.
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.
I would file a port request for Clawsker at trac.macports.com.
Great idea - I'll make that request.
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.
I'm not much of an X11 user so I would post to the MacPorts list. There
is at least two others using Claws Mail that I've seen on the list.
First I'll see if I can get it straightened out by myself. If not I'll
look to the MacPorts list.
Thanks for the suggestions.
- Dushan
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