On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 10:26:31PM +0100, David Woodfall wrote: > Hi > > In the (framebuffer) console I've used the standard escape codes to > set a small 1/3 block cursor to make it more visible, and softened > the colours to not be so stark. They were a bit of a headache > before, and the normal cursor is very hard to see. > > Unfortunately, when I start mutt everything resets back to the > defaults. I only see a couple of settings regarding the cursor, but > they don't seem to help. I've tried running with a -F /dev/null so > it doesn't seem to be something in my config. Is there any way of > avoiding this? > > In screen it's not so bad, but the cursor resets even just switching > to the window where mutt is running. The colours remain as they were > though. > > The cursor code I use is: > > printf '\e[?3c' > > Any ideas? > Programs that use the ncurses library will run initializations defined in their terminfo entries. According to "man terminfo" there are 6 or 7, like initialization_string_1 or _2 or _3.
Check your terminfo entry (infocmp) and see if any are defined that would modify your desired settings. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
