On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 06:45:09PM +0000, Gilbert Fernandes wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:10:31PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> 
> >> When I say "broken colors" for wsvt, I mean that
> >> colors with a black background were displayed fine,
> >> but those with a non-black background were simply
> >> shown as bright-white on black.
> 
> I get the same result since I moved from 1.6.1
> to current (1.6U). On console, I use wsvt25 as
> terminal definition, and since I moved to current
> (complete reinstall) mutt no longer shows color
> properly while other color applications do properly
> (irssi, for example). 

Same here. I suppose I should have asked on current-users, but
it didn't occur to me that would be the problem - I thought wscons
was fairly stable.

> Using screen (the gnu screen)
> makes mutt show colors properly though.

Works for me too, although I prefer not to use screen.

> I have checked twice my settings related to /etc
> but I don't see anything. Using the same settings
> under 1.6.1 gave me colors under mutt any time
> (without and with screen launched) while since I
> went 1.6U I only get colors if screen is launched
> (for mutt). If I launch mutt on console (wsvt25
> with 80x50) I get bright white over black.

Ditto.

> I removed and compiled again mutt, checked my
> terminal settings and configuration, checked the
> mutt config, to no avail. As I launch screen
> almost all the time on console, that doesn't
> trouble me so much, but I have not yet been able
> to get mutt colors to work under the console
> like I was doing with 1.6.1 :/

Same again here, but I find screen gets in my way sometimes: I 
prefer to do without if I can.

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Bruce J.A. Nourish <bjan+JUNK@bjan.net>