On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:07:07AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm having a colour problem when running mutt across an ssh link, I'm > not sure if this is mutt, rxvt, ssh or what. > > I'm connecting from a Solaris 2.6 desktop using rxvt terminal windows > to a Linux (redhat?) system login account running a bash shell. > > If I just connect manually to the remote Linux system and then run > mutt all is well, the colours work as expected. However if I try to > connect and run mutt all in one go by doing:- > > ssh -l cgreen -x -t x-1.net /home/d/cgreen/bin/mutt > > then the colours are completely scrambled, the background colours in > particular seem totally screwed up, the default background for example > is changed from a pale grey to purple! > > A similar cammand to run tin works perfectly. > > Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? > Hmm, silly me, I found that the mutt on the remote Linux box had been compiled with S-Lang. I've been using ncurses for everything else. Rebuilding with ncurses has fixed the problem, obviously some sort of S-Lang/rxvt incompatibility. -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.isbd.co.uk/
