On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Lutz Jaenicke wrote:
> Since I have troubles with slang in HP-UX 10.20 dtterm (the contents gets
> messed up sometimes), I have tried ncurses-5.1.
> While the problem seems to be solved with ncurses :-) I now have a more
> or less silly question:
> mutt-slang does not use colors in dtterm, it simply uses my default colors for
> foreground and background :-)
grumble: John Davis claims to have fixed that last year (with slang
1.4.0).
> mutt-ncurses switches to color mode and forces me to use white-on-black :-(
> I did find documentation on how to adjust colors or how to make sure that
> colors are used, but I want it the opposite way :-)
set TERM=vt220
is a quick way.
dtterm is supposed to be compatible with vt220, though there are still
some differences. Use
infocmp dtterm vt220
to see this. You may also use infocmp/tic to make a customized version of
the dtterm terminfo. Remove the 'colors#8,' string, for example, and
ncurses will not think that supports color. (If you want color in some
applications, rename the alias 'dtterm' to something else such as
'dtterm-mono'.
dtterm can support default-colors (which I find more readable than
solid backgrounds). Perhaps you are only trying the solid backgrounds
and do not want to use color for that reason.
> Any ideas?
> Lutz
> PS. When setting TERM=vt100, the colors are gone :-) but then "Page up"
> and "Page down" stop working: Key is not bound. Press '?' for help.
>
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