Thanks. That worked great!
-matt
On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 04:40:23PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> Fairlight [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 04:31:03PM +0000, Matthew Cordes spewed forth:
> > > Hello all. Mutt seems to draw its own background (black). How might I
> > > let it simply write on top of the pixmap my terminal normally uses. I've
> > > already tried removing all color entries from my muttrc and the
> > > background is still back. If this is not possible what color attribute
> > > do i use to change the background to white?
>
> Use 'default' for the background color to get a transparent background.
>
> > ... I think the manual said use the default
> > object for a transparent colour. My version (compiled against SLang)
> > doesn't seem to recognize that keyword at all.
>
> Acc. to the manual:
> "If Mutt is linked against the S-Lang library, you also need to set the
> COLORFGBG environment variable to the default colors of your terminal for
> this to work; for example (for Bourne-like shells):
>
> set COLORFGBG="green;black"
> export COLORFGBG
> "
>
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