On Jun 04 2010 19:52, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 08:02:34AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > Thanks to some help from Joel Dahl on the mutt-users list, I was able to > > restore correct color support in my mutt installation. But it raises a > > question about ncurses. > > > > It seems that building mutt with the devel/ncurses port installed creates > > the problem I was experiencing: most colors do not show up in mutt, and > > sounds familiar (layout differences, etc, depending on whether wide- or > narrow characters are used). > > > the line-drawing characters are borked. Deinstalling devel/ncurses and > > rebuilding mutt with the base version of ncurses solves the problem. > > > > However, x11/rxvt-unicode depends on devel/ncurses, so any time urxvt > > needs rebuilding we get devel/ncurses reinstalled. Any subsequent rebuild > > of mutt restores the original problem. > > > > Is there any way to sort this out? > > given a copy of the two build logs, I might be able to guess what's amiss. > > (I don't have a current FreeBSD to test directly on...) > > -- > Thomas E. Dickey > http://invisible-island.net > ftp://invisible-island.net
Thanks for your response, but I solved the problem by specifying that mutt should use slang instead of ncurses. That works better in a couple of ways, so I'll go with that. I do, however, still have one small problem. I can't seem to get mutt to see that my urxvt has 256 colors enabled. infocmp shows "colors#256" for rxvt-256color, but if I do 'export TERM=rxvt-256color' then zsh complains "can't find terminal definition for rxvt-256color" (though it lets me set it anyway). However, mutt still complains if I try to use any color above 8. With TERM set to "rxvt" infocmp shows "colors#8" and tput colors shows "145". I'm confused. Obviously, not everyone is on the same page here. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
