Re: Best terminal type
* Martin Moeller: I'm a little bit confused because of the enormous number of terminal types available. I'm mainly working on the console so cons25 is my default terminal type. Setting TERM to cons25 is okay. It does not prevent you to have colors. In mutt, you must define the colors yourself, see file attached for example setup. Yesterday, I used putty/ssh to connect to my machine and used elinks on it. With astonishment I realised that elinks used different colours and looked very nice. So I wondered why it didn't show up like this when using my console. I just tested with w3m www.freebsd.org on the console, there are blue colors for links, green for images, and red for forms. It should be okay. putty was using linux as terminal type, not cons25. Happily, I set linux my preferred terminal, but now mutt's display is totally screwed up. Well, you cannot set TERM arbitrarily. The underlying terminal won't probably support the escape sequences produced by the curses library if you use another TERM setting from your actual terminal. Cheers, -- Jean-Baptiste Quenot http://caraldi.com/jbq/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Best terminal type
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:45:32PM +0100, Martin Moeller wrote: Hello, everyone! I'm a little bit confused because of the enormous number of terminal types available. I'm mainly working on the console so cons25 is my default terminal type. Yesterday, I used putty/ssh to connect to my machine and used elinks on it. With astonishment I realised that elinks used different colours and looked very nice. So I wondered why it didn't show up like this when using my console. putty was using linux as terminal type, not cons25. Happily, I set linux my preferred terminal, but now mutt's display is totally screwed up. So guys: What terminal type to use when working on the console? I want all the nifty eye-candy! ;-) On a console my TERM env variable is set to cons25 as well, but mutt still uses colours ok as I have them set up in my .muttrc file. elinks doesn't use any colour the way I have things setup when I use it in a console, although in a putty session it does (using TERM=xterm) - not sure how to resolve that. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
