Re: mutt - color problem
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:57:39PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:16:03PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
This is telling...
#!/bin/sh
for color in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 0
do
echo `tput setaf ${color}``date`
done
output is as expected for the first 8 colors, that is
Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White (on white...)
When run on my Solaris 10 desktop I then get the inverse for the
last 8. I do not get the inverse on the remote system.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:22:00PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Chip,
This works a little better
# echo `tput setaf 1`hello`tput me`
tput: unknown terminfo capability 'me'
hello
Where we are in red from hello onwards.
So there are some colors available.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:46:57AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Chip,
No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not only
to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse)
the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for the
message I'm currently pointing to in the index.
With mutt not complaining I'm guessing it is a terminal/display
issue rather than a mutt issue, just hadn't realized that the
new
server (since nothing changed on my desktop) had, ya know,
issues.
I don't think its mutt, I think mutt is just a symptom, had
hoped that everything would work out of the box.
Trying to download newer sunfreeware mutt build but the download
keeps stalling out on me.
thanks,
Brian
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:19:59AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious...
Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i
(2003-03-19)
to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm
finding that
my colors and highlighting don't work at all.
Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config
changes,
just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris
10x86
and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the
server or
with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from
sunfreeware.
Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question.
Thanks for your
help,
Brian
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Rudimentary, yes. Easy, no. I probably don't know enough
about Solaris
to help you, but I can tell you that on FreeBSD I ran into
several
issues:
1. I had to build mutt with slang instead of ncurses.
2. The terminal definition I use has to be set up correctly
in *both*
termcap and terminfo. Specifically, it needs to have the
correct number
of colors specified (Co# in termcap) and the correct
sequences for
setting foreground/background color.
3. The terminal in which you are running mutt (urxvt in my
case) has to
be built with the same color options (256 color support, in
my case).
So, what kind of problem are you seeing? Is mutt
Re: mutt - color problem
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Wednesday, 01 September 2010:
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:57:39PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:16:03PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
This is telling...
#!/bin/sh
for color in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 0
do
echo `tput setaf ${color}``date`
done
output is as expected for the first 8 colors, that is
Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White (on white...)
When run on my Solaris 10 desktop I then get the inverse for the
last 8. I do not get the inverse on the remote system.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:22:00PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Chip,
This works a little better
# echo `tput setaf 1`hello`tput me`
tput: unknown terminfo capability 'me'
hello
Where we are in red from hello onwards.
So there are some colors available.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:46:57AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Chip,
No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not
only
to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse)
the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for
the
message I'm currently pointing to in the index.
With mutt not complaining I'm guessing it is a
terminal/display
issue rather than a mutt issue, just hadn't realized that the
new
server (since nothing changed on my desktop) had, ya know,
issues.
I don't think its mutt, I think mutt is just a symptom, had
hoped that everything would work out of the box.
Trying to download newer sunfreeware mutt build but the
download
keeps stalling out on me.
thanks,
Brian
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:19:59AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious...
Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i
(2003-03-19)
to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm
finding that
my colors and highlighting don't work at all.
Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config
changes,
just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is
Solaris 10x86
and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the
server or
with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from
sunfreeware.
Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question.
Thanks for your
help,
Brian
---
Brian R Cuttler
brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org
Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697
Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384
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your
system. Thank you for your cooperation.
Rudimentary, yes. Easy, no. I probably don't know enough
about Solaris
to help you, but I can tell you that on FreeBSD I ran into
several
issues:
1. I had to build mutt with slang instead of ncurses.
2. The terminal definition I use has to be set up correctly
in *both*
termcap and terminfo. Specifically, it needs to have the
correct number
of colors specified (Co# in termcap) and the correct
sequences for
setting foreground/background color.
3. The terminal in
Re: mutt - color problem
Chip, curie's mutt is built with slang, nnewton's is built with ncurses. That probably accounts for the difference. I finally got a download of a newer mutt version from sunfreeware and will install it on the Solaris x86 platform. Assuming that its also built with slang - do you know what I need to do to make it work ? thanks, Brian IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.
Re: mutt - color problem
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Wednesday, 01 September 2010: Chip, curie's mutt is built with slang, nnewton's is built with ncurses. That probably accounts for the difference. I finally got a download of a newer mutt version from sunfreeware and will install it on the Solaris x86 platform. Assuming that its also built with slang - do you know what I need to do to make it work ? thanks, Brian The version I'm using is built with slang, and colors work here (a full 256 of them). Give it a try and we'll take it from there. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgp7jMykPHeZm.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mutt - color problem
Chip, I installed mutt 1.5.20 from sunfreeware and found that we where missing several required packages, including slang. I installed and mutt seems to open my outbox ok, That is the index displays correctly with header and footer inverse and the index bar being visible. Typically the outbox does not show messages based on my color highlighting rules, but based on prior behavor things are looking good. I ran into what I suspect is a syntax error with the inbox when I invoke mutt with no arguments. Bad IDN imaps.wadsworth.org. .muttrc file beings this way. [curie] ~ 233 more .muttrc set spoolfile=imap://imaps.wadsworth.org/INBOX set folder=imap://imaps.wadsworth.org/ I'm looking online now, don't know for sure that the error is where I'm looking (or what IDN stands for) but the .muttrc file is static and works under v1.5.17 (prior version on solaris x86) and 1.4.1i on Solaris sparc. thanks, Brian IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.
Re: mutt - color problem
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Wednesday, 01 September 2010: Chip, I installed mutt 1.5.20 from sunfreeware and found that we where missing several required packages, including slang. I installed and mutt seems to open my outbox ok, That is the index displays correctly with header and footer inverse and the index bar being visible. Typically the outbox does not show messages based on my color highlighting rules, but based on prior behavor things are looking good. I ran into what I suspect is a syntax error with the inbox when I invoke mutt with no arguments. Bad IDN imaps.wadsworth.org. .muttrc file beings this way. [curie] ~ 233 more .muttrc set spoolfile=imap://imaps.wadsworth.org/INBOX set folder=imap://imaps.wadsworth.org/ I'm looking online now, don't know for sure that the error is where I'm looking (or what IDN stands for) but the .muttrc file is static and works under v1.5.17 (prior version on solaris x86) and 1.4.1i on Solaris sparc. thanks, Brian I have no experience with IMAP, so others will need to help you there. Glad to hear that the screen attributes are working properly, though. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpPYAgiqQjGS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mutt - color problem
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious... Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that my colors and highlighting don't work at all. Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes, just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris 10x86 and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server or with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from sunfreeware. Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question. Thanks for your help, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Rudimentary, yes. Easy, no. I probably don't know enough about Solaris to help you, but I can tell you that on FreeBSD I ran into several issues: 1. I had to build mutt with slang instead of ncurses. 2. The terminal definition I use has to be set up correctly in *both* termcap and terminfo. Specifically, it needs to have the correct number of colors specified (Co# in termcap) and the correct sequences for setting foreground/background color. 3. The terminal in which you are running mutt (urxvt in my case) has to be built with the same color options (256 color support, in my case). So, what kind of problem are you seeing? Is mutt complaining, or is it just silently not changing the colors? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgp3ieSYHRdBK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mutt - color problem
Chip, No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not only to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse) the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for the message I'm currently pointing to in the index. With mutt not complaining I'm guessing it is a terminal/display issue rather than a mutt issue, just hadn't realized that the new server (since nothing changed on my desktop) had, ya know, issues. I don't think its mutt, I think mutt is just a symptom, had hoped that everything would work out of the box. Trying to download newer sunfreeware mutt build but the download keeps stalling out on me. thanks, Brian On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:19:59AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious... Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that my colors and highlighting don't work at all. Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes, just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris 10x86 and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server or with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from sunfreeware. Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question. Thanks for your help, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Rudimentary, yes. Easy, no. I probably don't know enough about Solaris to help you, but I can tell you that on FreeBSD I ran into several issues: 1. I had to build mutt with slang instead of ncurses. 2. The terminal definition I use has to be set up correctly in *both* termcap and terminfo. Specifically, it needs to have the correct number of colors specified (Co# in termcap) and the correct sequences for setting foreground/background color. 3. The terminal in which you are running mutt (urxvt in my case) has to be built with the same color options (256 color support, in my case). So, what kind of problem are you seeing? Is mutt complaining, or is it just silently not changing the colors? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.
Re: mutt - color problem
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:56:01PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious... Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that my colors and highlighting don't work at all. Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes, just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris 10x86 and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server or with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from sunfreeware. Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question. When you ssh in to the server what does: env|grep TERM output? If the TERM is xterm, perhaps also exporting COLORTERM=xterm-color will help. -- Will Fiveash
Re: mutt - color problem
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Chip, No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not only to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse) the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for the message I'm currently pointing to in the index. With mutt not complaining I'm guessing it is a terminal/display issue rather than a mutt issue, just hadn't realized that the new server (since nothing changed on my desktop) had, ya know, issues. I don't think its mutt, I think mutt is just a symptom, had hoped that everything would work out of the box. Trying to download newer sunfreeware mutt build but the download keeps stalling out on me. thanks, Brian On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:19:59AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious... Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that my colors and highlighting don't work at all. Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes, just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris 10x86 and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server or with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from sunfreeware. Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question. Thanks for your help, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Rudimentary, yes. Easy, no. I probably don't know enough about Solaris to help you, but I can tell you that on FreeBSD I ran into several issues: 1. I had to build mutt with slang instead of ncurses. 2. The terminal definition I use has to be set up correctly in *both* termcap and terminfo. Specifically, it needs to have the correct number of colors specified (Co# in termcap) and the correct sequences for setting foreground/background color. 3. The terminal in which you are running mutt (urxvt in my case) has to be built with the same color options (256 color support, in my case). So, what kind of problem are you seeing? Is mutt complaining, or is it just silently not changing the colors? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Try this at a shell prompt: echo `tput AF 1`hello`tput me` hello should be in red. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpnWVqxZ6x8o.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mutt - color problem
Will, I'd tried term vt100 and dtterm, setting both xterm and xterm-color env vars I now get a black block cursor in the last column of the index as I move up and down the message index. looking more and more like a termcap issue... I'll see if there are other vt100 or dtterm color settings as well. thanks, Brian On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:40:39PM -0500, Will Fiveash wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:56:01PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious... Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that my colors and highlighting don't work at all. Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes, just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris 10x86 and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server or with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from sunfreeware. Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question. When you ssh in to the server what does: env|grep TERM output? If the TERM is xterm, perhaps also exporting COLORTERM=xterm-color will help. -- Will Fiveash --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.
Re: mutt - color problem
Will, Here is a crazy test. from the system I'd ssh'd into, I ssh'd to a linux box where, the # ls command there has an option to display different types of files in different colors. That worked perfectly. Term there was xterm and there was also the addtional env var of COLORTERM set to 1. By using # ssh -X, and then # ssh -X again I'm avoiding the termcap settings in the intermediate host though, aren't I ? For a test like that the middle man's problems are simply ignored. right ? On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:40:39PM -0500, Will Fiveash wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:56:01PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious... Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that my colors and highlighting don't work at all. Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes, just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris 10x86 and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server or with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from sunfreeware. Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question. When you ssh in to the server what does: env|grep TERM output? If the TERM is xterm, perhaps also exporting COLORTERM=xterm-color will help. -- Will Fiveash --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation.
Re: mutt - color problem
From Chip Camden Try this at a shell prompt: echo `tput AF 1`hello`tput me` hello should be in red. Chip - B/W only, plus the errors. I'm guessing that the errors tell us where the root of the problem is. Ok, I'm guessing that the errors will tells someone who is not me where the error lies. [curie] ~ 212 printenv | grep TER TERM=xterm COLORTERM=1 [curie] ~ 213 echo `tput AF 1`hello`tput me` tput: unknown terminfo capability 'AF' tput: unknown terminfo capability 'me' hello On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:46:57AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Chip, No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not only to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse) the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for the message I'm currently pointing to in the index. With mutt not complaining I'm guessing it is a terminal/display issue rather than a mutt issue, just hadn't realized that the new server (since nothing changed on my desktop) had, ya know, issues. I don't think its mutt, I think mutt is just a symptom, had hoped that everything would work out of the box. Trying to download newer sunfreeware mutt build but the download keeps stalling out on me. thanks, Brian On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:19:59AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious... Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that my colors and highlighting don't work at all. Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes, just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris 10x86 and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server or with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from sunfreeware. Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question. Thanks for your help, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Rudimentary, yes. Easy, no. I probably don't know enough about Solaris to help you, but I can tell you that on FreeBSD I ran into several issues: 1. I had to build mutt with slang instead of ncurses. 2. The terminal definition I use has to be set up correctly in *both* termcap and terminfo. Specifically, it needs to have the correct number of colors specified (Co# in termcap) and the correct sequences for setting foreground/background color. 3. The terminal in which you are running mutt (urxvt in my case) has to be built with the same color options (256 color support, in my case). So, what kind of problem are you seeing? Is mutt complaining, or is it just silently not changing the colors? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Try this at a shell prompt: echo `tput AF 1`hello`tput me` hello should be in red. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com|
Re: mutt - color problem
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: From Chip Camden Try this at a shell prompt: echo `tput AF 1`hello`tput me` hello should be in red. Chip - B/W only, plus the errors. I'm guessing that the errors tell us where the root of the problem is. Ok, I'm guessing that the errors will tells someone who is not me where the error lies. [curie] ~ 212 printenv | grep TER TERM=xterm COLORTERM=1 [curie] ~ 213 echo `tput AF 1`hello`tput me` tput: unknown terminfo capability 'AF' tput: unknown terminfo capability 'me' hello On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:46:57AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Chip, No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not only to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse) the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for the message I'm currently pointing to in the index. With mutt not complaining I'm guessing it is a terminal/display issue rather than a mutt issue, just hadn't realized that the new server (since nothing changed on my desktop) had, ya know, issues. I don't think its mutt, I think mutt is just a symptom, had hoped that everything would work out of the box. Trying to download newer sunfreeware mutt build but the download keeps stalling out on me. thanks, Brian On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:19:59AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious... Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that my colors and highlighting don't work at all. Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes, just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris 10x86 and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server or with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from sunfreeware. Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question. Thanks for your help, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Rudimentary, yes. Easy, no. I probably don't know enough about Solaris to help you, but I can tell you that on FreeBSD I ran into several issues: 1. I had to build mutt with slang instead of ncurses. 2. The terminal definition I use has to be set up correctly in *both* termcap and terminfo. Specifically, it needs to have the correct number of colors specified (Co# in termcap) and the correct sequences for setting foreground/background color. 3. The terminal in which you are running mutt (urxvt in my case) has to be built with the same color options (256 color support, in my case). So, what kind of problem are you seeing? Is mutt complaining, or is it just silently not changing the colors? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Try this at a shell prompt: echo `tput AF 1`hello`tput me`
Re: mutt - color problem
Chip, This works a little better # echo `tput setaf 1`hello`tput me` tput: unknown terminfo capability 'me' hello Where we are in red from hello onwards. So there are some colors available. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:46:57AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Chip, No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not only to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse) the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for the message I'm currently pointing to in the index. With mutt not complaining I'm guessing it is a terminal/display issue rather than a mutt issue, just hadn't realized that the new server (since nothing changed on my desktop) had, ya know, issues. I don't think its mutt, I think mutt is just a symptom, had hoped that everything would work out of the box. Trying to download newer sunfreeware mutt build but the download keeps stalling out on me. thanks, Brian On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:19:59AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious... Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that my colors and highlighting don't work at all. Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes, just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris 10x86 and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server or with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from sunfreeware. Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question. Thanks for your help, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Rudimentary, yes. Easy, no. I probably don't know enough about Solaris to help you, but I can tell you that on FreeBSD I ran into several issues: 1. I had to build mutt with slang instead of ncurses. 2. The terminal definition I use has to be set up correctly in *both* termcap and terminfo. Specifically, it needs to have the correct number of colors specified (Co# in termcap) and the correct sequences for setting foreground/background color. 3. The terminal in which you are running mutt (urxvt in my case) has to be built with the same color options (256 color support, in my case). So, what kind of problem are you seeing? Is mutt complaining, or is it just silently not changing the colors? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Try this at a shell prompt: echo `tput AF 1`hello`tput me` hello should be in red. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any
Re: mutt - color problem
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Chip, This works a little better # echo `tput setaf 1`hello`tput me` tput: unknown terminfo capability 'me' hello Where we are in red from hello onwards. So there are some colors available. On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:46:57AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Chip, No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not only to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse) the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for the message I'm currently pointing to in the index. With mutt not complaining I'm guessing it is a terminal/display issue rather than a mutt issue, just hadn't realized that the new server (since nothing changed on my desktop) had, ya know, issues. I don't think its mutt, I think mutt is just a symptom, had hoped that everything would work out of the box. Trying to download newer sunfreeware mutt build but the download keeps stalling out on me. thanks, Brian On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:19:59AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious... Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that my colors and highlighting don't work at all. Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes, just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris 10x86 and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server or with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from sunfreeware. Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question. Thanks for your help, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Rudimentary, yes. Easy, no. I probably don't know enough about Solaris to help you, but I can tell you that on FreeBSD I ran into several issues: 1. I had to build mutt with slang instead of ncurses. 2. The terminal definition I use has to be set up correctly in *both* termcap and terminfo. Specifically, it needs to have the correct number of colors specified (Co# in termcap) and the correct sequences for setting foreground/background color. 3. The terminal in which you are running mutt (urxvt in my case) has to be built with the same color options (256 color support, in my case). So, what kind of problem are you seeing? Is mutt complaining, or is it just silently not changing the colors? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Try this at a shell prompt: echo `tput AF 1`hello`tput me` hello should be in red. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518
Re: mutt - color problem
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:54:39PM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: Will, Here is a crazy test. from the system I'd ssh'd into, I ssh'd to a linux box where, the # ls command there has an option to display different types of files in different colors. That worked perfectly. Term there was xterm and there was also the addtional env var of COLORTERM set to 1. By using # ssh -X, and then # ssh -X again I'm avoiding the termcap settings in the intermediate host though, aren't I ? For a test like that the middle man's problems are simply ignored. right ? Beyond my guessing about COLORTERM I'm not sure what the problem is. You may want to look at the terminfo.4 man page and the See Also pages. I used to run Solaris 10 and used a version of mutt that I built myself that was using slang instead of curses (not sure why at this point). These days I'm running a internal developer build of Solaris which has a native version of libncurses so I've compiled the latest developer version of mutt to use that. Here are the shared libs that mutt is currently linked to: libncurses.so.5 = /usr/gnu/lib/libncurses.so.5 libssl.so.0.9.8 = /lib/libssl.so.0.9.8 libcrypto.so.0.9.8 =/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 libz.so.1 = /lib/libz.so.1 libsasl.so.1 = /usr/lib/libsasl.so.1 libgdbm.so.3 = /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.3 libidn.so.11 = /usr/lib/libidn.so.11 libsocket.so.1 =/lib/libsocket.so.1 libnsl.so.1 = /lib/libnsl.so.1 libc.so.1 = /lib/libc.so.1 libmd.so.1 =/lib/libmd.so.1 libmp.so.2 =/lib/libmp.so.2 libm.so.2 = /lib/libm.so.2 My TERM is xterm when I ssh into a Solaris system. Note that I do not have to set COLORTERM in order to have mutt display color. I have a shell script wrapper for mutt so it can find the /usr/gnu/lib/libncurses.so.5 lib. It basically looks like: #!/usr/bin/ksh -p export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/gnu/lib exec $HOME/bin/$(uname -p)/mutt $@ # end of script I have the binary version of mutt in $HOME/bin/i386/ -- Will Fiveash
Re: mutt - color problem
This is telling...
#!/bin/sh
for color in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 0
do
echo `tput setaf ${color}``date`
done
output is as expected for the first 8 colors, that is
Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White (on white...)
When run on my Solaris 10 desktop I then get the inverse for the
last 8. I do not get the inverse on the remote system.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:22:00PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Chip,
This works a little better
# echo `tput setaf 1`hello`tput me`
tput: unknown terminfo capability 'me'
hello
Where we are in red from hello onwards.
So there are some colors available.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:46:57AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Chip,
No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not only
to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse)
the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for the
message I'm currently pointing to in the index.
With mutt not complaining I'm guessing it is a terminal/display
issue rather than a mutt issue, just hadn't realized that the new
server (since nothing changed on my desktop) had, ya know, issues.
I don't think its mutt, I think mutt is just a symptom, had
hoped that everything would work out of the box.
Trying to download newer sunfreeware mutt build but the download
keeps stalling out on me.
thanks,
Brian
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:19:59AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious...
Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19)
to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that
my colors and highlighting don't work at all.
Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes,
just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris 10x86
and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server or
with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from sunfreeware.
Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question.
Thanks for your help,
Brian
---
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Rudimentary, yes. Easy, no. I probably don't know enough about
Solaris
to help you, but I can tell you that on FreeBSD I ran into several
issues:
1. I had to build mutt with slang instead of ncurses.
2. The terminal definition I use has to be set up correctly in *both*
termcap and terminfo. Specifically, it needs to have the correct
number
of colors specified (Co# in termcap) and the correct sequences for
setting foreground/background color.
3. The terminal in which you are running mutt (urxvt in my case) has
to
be built with the same color options (256 color support, in my case).
So, what kind of problem are you seeing? Is mutt complaining, or is
it
just silently not changing the colors?
--
Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com |
2048D/3A978E4F
http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com|
http://chipsquips.com
---
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Re: mutt - color problem
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
This is telling...
#!/bin/sh
for color in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 0
do
echo `tput setaf ${color}``date`
done
output is as expected for the first 8 colors, that is
Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White (on white...)
When run on my Solaris 10 desktop I then get the inverse for the
last 8. I do not get the inverse on the remote system.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:22:00PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Chip,
This works a little better
# echo `tput setaf 1`hello`tput me`
tput: unknown terminfo capability 'me'
hello
Where we are in red from hello onwards.
So there are some colors available.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:46:57AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Chip,
No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not only
to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse)
the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for the
message I'm currently pointing to in the index.
With mutt not complaining I'm guessing it is a terminal/display
issue rather than a mutt issue, just hadn't realized that the new
server (since nothing changed on my desktop) had, ya know, issues.
I don't think its mutt, I think mutt is just a symptom, had
hoped that everything would work out of the box.
Trying to download newer sunfreeware mutt build but the download
keeps stalling out on me.
thanks,
Brian
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:19:59AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious...
Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i
(2003-03-19)
to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding
that
my colors and highlighting don't work at all.
Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes,
just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris 10x86
and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server or
with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from sunfreeware.
Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question.
Thanks for your help,
Brian
---
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Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697
Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384
NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain
confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally
privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure.
It
is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in
error or
from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do
not
distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the
sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your
system. Thank you for your cooperation.
Rudimentary, yes. Easy, no. I probably don't know enough about
Solaris
to help you, but I can tell you that on FreeBSD I ran into several
issues:
1. I had to build mutt with slang instead of ncurses.
2. The terminal definition I use has to be set up correctly in
*both*
termcap and terminfo. Specifically, it needs to have the correct
number
of colors specified (Co# in termcap) and the correct sequences for
setting foreground/background color.
3. The terminal in which you are running mutt (urxvt in my case)
has to
be built with the same color options (256 color support, in my
case).
So, what kind of problem are you seeing? Is mutt complaining, or
is it
just silently not changing the colors?
--
Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com |
2048D/3A978E4F
http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com|
http://chipsquips.com
---
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Re: mutt - color problem
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:16:03PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
This is telling...
#!/bin/sh
for color in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 0
do
echo `tput setaf ${color}``date`
done
output is as expected for the first 8 colors, that is
Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White (on white...)
When run on my Solaris 10 desktop I then get the inverse for the
last 8. I do not get the inverse on the remote system.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:22:00PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Chip,
This works a little better
# echo `tput setaf 1`hello`tput me`
tput: unknown terminfo capability 'me'
hello
Where we are in red from hello onwards.
So there are some colors available.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:46:57AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Chip,
No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not only
to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse)
the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for the
message I'm currently pointing to in the index.
With mutt not complaining I'm guessing it is a terminal/display
issue rather than a mutt issue, just hadn't realized that the new
server (since nothing changed on my desktop) had, ya know, issues.
I don't think its mutt, I think mutt is just a symptom, had
hoped that everything would work out of the box.
Trying to download newer sunfreeware mutt build but the download
keeps stalling out on me.
thanks,
Brian
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:19:59AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious...
Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i
(2003-03-19)
to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding
that
my colors and highlighting don't work at all.
Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes,
just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris
10x86
and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server or
with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from
sunfreeware.
Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question.
Thanks for your
help,
Brian
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Rudimentary, yes. Easy, no. I probably don't know enough about
Solaris
to help you, but I can tell you that on FreeBSD I ran into several
issues:
1. I had to build mutt with slang instead of ncurses.
2. The terminal definition I use has to be set up correctly in
*both*
termcap and terminfo. Specifically, it needs to have the correct
number
of colors specified (Co# in termcap) and the correct sequences for
setting foreground/background color.
3. The terminal in which you are running mutt (urxvt in my case)
has to
be built with the same color options (256 color support, in my
case).
So, what kind of problem are you seeing? Is mutt complaining, or
is it
just silently not changing the colors?
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Re: mutt - color problem
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: From Chip Camden Try this at a shell prompt: echo `tput AF 1`hello`tput me` hello should be in red. Chip - B/W only, plus the errors. I'm guessing that the errors tell us where the root of the problem is. Ok, I'm guessing that the errors will tells someone who is not me where the error lies. [curie] ~ 212 printenv | grep TER TERM=xterm COLORTERM=1 [curie] ~ 213 echo `tput AF 1`hello`tput me` tput: unknown terminfo capability 'AF' tput: unknown terminfo capability 'me' hello On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:46:57AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Chip, No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not only to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse) the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for the message I'm currently pointing to in the index. With mutt not complaining I'm guessing it is a terminal/display issue rather than a mutt issue, just hadn't realized that the new server (since nothing changed on my desktop) had, ya know, issues. I don't think its mutt, I think mutt is just a symptom, had hoped that everything would work out of the box. Trying to download newer sunfreeware mutt build but the download keeps stalling out on me. thanks, Brian On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:19:59AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious... Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i (2003-03-19) to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm finding that my colors and highlighting don't work at all. Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config changes, just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris 10x86 and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server or with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from sunfreeware. Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question. Thanks for your help, Brian --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Rudimentary, yes. Easy, no. I probably don't know enough about Solaris to help you, but I can tell you that on FreeBSD I ran into several issues: 1. I had to build mutt with slang instead of ncurses. 2. The terminal definition I use has to be set up correctly in *both* termcap and terminfo. Specifically, it needs to have the correct number of colors specified (Co# in termcap) and the correct sequences for setting foreground/background color. 3. The terminal in which you are running mutt (urxvt in my case) has to be built with the same color options (256 color support, in my case). So, what kind of problem are you seeing? Is mutt complaining, or is it just silently not changing the colors? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com --- Brian R Cuttler brian.cutt...@wadsworth.org Computer Systems Support(v) 518 486-1697 Wadsworth Center(f) 518 473-6384 NYS Department of HealthHelp Desk 518 473-0773 IMPORTANT NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential or sensitive information which is, or may be, legally privileged or otherwise protected by law from further disclosure. It is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in error or from someone who was not authorized to send it to you, please do not distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Try this at a shell prompt: echo `tput AF 1`hello`tput me`
Re: mutt - color problem
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 01:16:03PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
This is telling...
#!/bin/sh
for color in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 0
do
echo `tput setaf ${color}``date`
done
output is as expected for the first 8 colors, that is
Black, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Magenta, Cyan, White (on white...)
When run on my Solaris 10 desktop I then get the inverse for the
last 8. I do not get the inverse on the remote system.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:22:00PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Chip,
This works a little better
# echo `tput setaf 1`hello`tput me`
tput: unknown terminfo capability 'me'
hello
Where we are in red from hello onwards.
So there are some colors available.
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:46:57AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Chip,
No, mutt is not producing any errors, its just failing, not only
to set colors but even to highlight (or is it simply reverse)
the black and white header and footer or provide inverse for the
message I'm currently pointing to in the index.
With mutt not complaining I'm guessing it is a terminal/display
issue rather than a mutt issue, just hadn't realized that the new
server (since nothing changed on my desktop) had, ya know, issues.
I don't think its mutt, I think mutt is just a symptom, had
hoped that everything would work out of the box.
Trying to download newer sunfreeware mutt build but the download
keeps stalling out on me.
thanks,
Brian
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:19:59AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
Quoth Brian Cuttler on Tuesday, 31 August 2010:
Hate ask, but I think I've tried the obvious...
Moving from a Solaris 9/sparc box with mutt Mutt 1.4.1i
(2003-03-19)
to Solaris 10x86 with Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) and I'm
finding that
my colors and highlighting don't work at all.
Checked terminal type, the same, didn't make any config
changes,
just # ssh'd into a different server. My desktop is Solaris
10x86
and that hasn't changed either. Its something with the server
or
with the specific build of mutt, I believe both from
sunfreeware.
Sorry to ask such a rudimenary question.
Thanks for your
help,
Brian
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is intended only for the addressee. If you received this in
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distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify
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Rudimentary, yes. Easy, no. I probably don't know enough
about Solaris
to help you, but I can tell you that on FreeBSD I ran into
several
issues:
1. I had to build mutt with slang instead of ncurses.
2. The terminal definition I use has to be set up correctly in
*both*
termcap and terminfo. Specifically, it needs to have the
correct number
of colors specified (Co# in termcap) and the correct sequences
for
setting foreground/background color.
3. The terminal in which you are running mutt (urxvt in my
case) has to
be built with the same color options (256 color support, in my
case).
So, what kind of problem are you seeing? Is mutt complaining,
or is it
just silently not changing the colors?
--
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2048D/3A978E4F
http://camdensoftware.com |
Re: mutt - color problem
May I suggest that trimming some of the quoted material in these messages? It'd make it easier to read the thread, and maybe help out. Nico --
Re: mutt - color problem
BTW, I use screen in gnome-terminal. I notice the following: - TERM is screen-bce; - VIM works fine, handles colors; - Mutt built with S-Lang does not start unless I set TERM to xterm or xterm-color; Mutt complains that Key sequence is too long, SLcurses_initscr: init failed; - If I set TERM=xterm then VIM thinks the terminal is monochrome; - If I set TERM=xterm then Mutt does produce colors; - If I set TERM=xterm-color then both, VIM and Mutt handle color. Weird, no? This is almost certainly a result of using different APIs (VIM uses curses, Mutt uses S-Lang). I believe my colleague Will F. has shown that Mutt works fine with curses (ncurses). This is all on Solaris. Nico --
Re: mutt - color problem
Quoth Nicolas Williams on Tuesday, 31 August 2010: BTW, I use screen in gnome-terminal. I notice the following: - TERM is screen-bce; - VIM works fine, handles colors; - Mutt built with S-Lang does not start unless I set TERM to xterm or xterm-color; Mutt complains that Key sequence is too long, SLcurses_initscr: init failed; - If I set TERM=xterm then VIM thinks the terminal is monochrome; - If I set TERM=xterm then Mutt does produce colors; - If I set TERM=xterm-color then both, VIM and Mutt handle color. Weird, no? This is almost certainly a result of using different APIs (VIM uses curses, Mutt uses S-Lang). I believe my colleague Will F. has shown that Mutt works fine with curses (ncurses). This is all on Solaris. Nico -- You could probably get mutt to start with TERM=screen-bce is termcap has an appropriate entry for it. I found that even though mutt with slang uses terminfo, it queries termcap on startup. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpmauqYnEsg1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: mutt - color problem
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 02:37:48PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: You could probably get mutt to start with TERM=screen-bce is termcap has an appropriate entry for it. I found that even though mutt with slang uses terminfo, it queries termcap on startup. screen(1) does set TERMCAP in the environment... There is a termcap entry for screen, but not for screen-bce. If I add the screen-bce entry I still get the same error, as I do if I set TERM=screen. Aha! I must unset TERMCAP to make Mutt/S-Lang happy. Nico --
