On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 06:15:44PM -0400 or thereabouts, Fairlight wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 04:40:23PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser spewed forth:
> > Fairlight [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > > 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
>
> The problem is, that strictly affects the top menu bar. The way I read the
> original post, he seemed to want the entire screen white. COLORFGBG does
> not accomplish that task, even if I remove "color normal white black"...the
> body of my email is still white on black.
[snip]
> If the COLORFGBG can do more than what it is, I'd like to know how. :)
I set what I considered cool (ahem) colours in gnome-terminal and met
this problem of mutt (or slang? I'm not too clear on this) inflicting
its own colours on it. I fixed it by putting this in my .bash_profile
(or .bashrc; I always put things in them the wrong way round):
set COLORFGBG="default;default"
export COLORFGBG
This resulted in the same text and background colours for mutt that I
had set for the gnome-terminal. I haven't tried messing with colours
for reading mail yet.
I _think_ this may be what the original poster was looking for?
Telsa
