On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Maximilian Szengel wrote: > On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 09:46:30AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 01:41:55PM +0200, Maximilian Szengel wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've just edited my mutt colors to have a white background. (color > > > normal black white etc.) I am using aterm and when I call mutt with the > > > white background setting it looks awful, not white. Have a look at the > > > screenshot [1]. I tried it with rxvt and it looks the same. Am I doing > > > something wrong? Maybe it's not mutt's fault, then just ignore this > > > post and I am going to find help somewhere else. > > > > > > 1. http://che23.de/mutt_aterm.jpg > > > > That looks like you're using ncurses 5.2 with the experimental $COLORTERM > > support (it doesn't work for bright backgrounds). > > Well, I had libncursesw5[-dev] installed (debian-woody). But when I > remove it mutt's color behavior does not change. Do you have any tip, > how I can correct this?
A quick way to verify if my guess is correct (and work around) is to unset the COLORFGBG environment variable. ($COLORFGBG is sort of $COLORTERM/version-2 ;-) Basically what happens is that it's specifying a background color 15, while the terminfo says there's only 8 colors. (I considered adding a special case for this, but decided that the proper solution would be to use an appropriate terminfo). -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
