rxvt has wrong TERM variable

[damon@empire.net.au]

Hi Gang,

Been having some trouble getting mutt to work in colour in rxvt under X
(rxvt 2.20-3.1, according to 'dpkg -l|grep rxvt'), and I worked out that
the problem was that the TERM variable is set as 'xterm'. When I manually
change this to 'rxvt', I then get mutt working in colour again.

Accordning to the rxvt FM "rxvt sets the environment variables  TERM,
COLORTERM and COLORFGBG". COLORTERM seems okay, but TERM doesn:

rei$ set|grep TERM
COLORTERM=rxvt-xpm
TERM=xterm  

Anyone have any cluses here? It's a bit of a pain to have to set it every
time I read my mail, and with all the pretty colour of mutt, who really
want to read it in black and white?

Thanks,

damon

-- 
Damon Muller (damon@empire.net.au)
Systems Administrator
EmpireNET
Melbourne, Australia


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