Re: using a light theme with xterm (that has black background)

[Todd Zullinger]

Hi,

Ranjan Maitra via Mutt-users wrote:
> So, I like to have my email window to have a light theme
> and everything else to have a dark theme (to distinguish
> things easily and sort of intuitively). 
> 
> I consider myself a short-time mutt user, having been
> using it for a bit under five years I am not sure I know
> or use many of the features that are possible using mutt. 
> 
> Anyway, I usually use mutt with `xterm -e mutt` but now I
> have been wanting to use a light theme. Such as the light
> solarized theme as available here:
> 
> https://github.com/altercation/mutt-colors-solarized/blob/master/mutt-colors-solarized-light-256.muttrc
> 
> However, I get a dark background in my mutt window. Is
> this because my xterm is set to have black background.
> 
> I tried using `xterm -bg "#ffffff" -fg '#000000' -e mutt``
> and that does help some, however, I am not sure if there
> is a better preferred way. 
> 
> Some information: my mutt is the Fedora distribution
> packaged version, composed using ncurses.
> 
> I guess (though this is really my guess and nothing more)
> that the dark background is happening because of the use
> of default in the theme(?). If that is the case, I was
> wondering if there is a way to set the default theme to
> something without changing the terminal.

Have you looked at the issues and pull requests for that
repository?

This issue appears to be the same as you report:

    https://github.com/altercation/mutt-colors-solarized/issues/1

And it includes a link to a pull request at the end which
might help:

    https://github.com/altercation/mutt-colors-solarized/pull/13

I don't know offhand if you can make it all look as you want
when the terminal and muttrc colors are set as dark and
light, respectively.

I think you can get pretty close by changing the various
background colors from 'default' to a specific light color.

That is what the changes suggested in the pull request above
do, using 'brightwhite' but you can use any color you like
(within the 256 colors available, of course).

-- 
Todd

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