Also sprach Brian Kimball (Tue 05 Aug 02003 at 04:31:21PM -0700): > Michael D. Schleif wrote: > > > Here are ~/.muttrc color commands: > > > > # grep ^color ~/.muttrc | sort > > color attachment blue default > ^^^^^^^ > As a quick fix, try setting the background color explicitly. Also, the > "default" background is black in mutt. Mutt apparently does not inherit > the terminal's background color as its default background color. # mutt -v Mutt 1.5.4i (2003-03-19) /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz says this: If your terminal supports it, the special keyword default can be used as a transparent color. How is it that you insist that ``"default" background is black in mutt"? Since I require special locale settings, &c., I use a wrapper script to call mutt, like this: ## rxvt -font 9x15 -e /usr/bin/mutt & xterm -name mutt -e /usr/bin/mutt & > > Can I safely remove kde from the root-cause analysis? How? > > If you suspect kde is the cause, debug it under a different, simpler, > window manager. I prefer twm; it's about as simple as it gets. > <snip /> You make several interesting suggestions that I will try soon. Thank you. -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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