On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 09:43:24AM +0200, Bernd 'Siggy' Brentrup wrote: > Hi List, > > I'm absolutely new to openbsd so please bear with me if it's not > the right place to ask my question. The box I installed 4.5 will > be running headless so I'm logged in remotely on a color xterm. > > I rsynced mutt configuration from my Ubuntu box because it's also > running mutt 1.5.18, most things work out as expected except for > lack of colors, missing threading and convenient confvars > xterm_set_titles and xterm_title that I use to display status > information in the xterm title. > > I'll investigate the first 2 quirks later, as for ther xterm stuff > my question is did you leave these out on purpose, they are missing > in your muttrc(5) too (if so why) or should I check Ubuntu's resp. > Debian's source code to see if they patched mutt.
I'm fairly certain xterm_* is a Debian/Ubuntu "improvement": at least, http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html doesn't know about either option. If it's important to you, you may be able to get the patches from the Debian package to apply against OpenBSD's port. Colors do work, with a proper TERM setting (e.g. xterm-xfree86 or xterm-color; plain xterm doesn't work, since there are things that identify as xterm but don't handle color.) Try setting TERM properly and/or running "env TERM=xterm-color mutt". Threading definitely works for me, although you can get some display issues if the characters sets used don't match. Feel free to ask for the details; your original post was sufficiently unclear that I cannot guess your problem. Joachim
