On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 01:56:54PM -0400, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Hanif Ladha [4355] wrote:
>
> > Dear Muttophiles,
> >
> > I am in search for an ideal (yep very subjective i know) 'xterm' that will let
> > me to setup pretty colours for mutt/vim combination.
> >
> > I am running Solaris 8 on a Ultrasparc 5 (very nice machine BTW), alas it only
> > has a 4Mb frame bugger card so I am stuck with 8-bit color (I need the high
> > res.) I am running CDE (the other choice I had was OpenWindows - this I
> > understand may not be supported in future releases of Solaeis - so I was
> > required to use CDE).
> >
> > Under CDE I have access to dtterm, which is okay for color display of mutt/vim.
> > I would like to use say xterm (by dickey) or rxvt. Alas I am having difficulty
> > in getting color on them (need to do more digging).
>
> If you got them to compile/run, then they both are ready to do color.
> Likely the problem is that the $TERM is set to 'xterm', which normally
> is installed as a non-color terminfo entry. (XFree86 xterm comes
> with a terminfo file which can be compiled using "tic", and would
> overwrite the "xterm" terminfo entry with a link to "xterm-xfree86").
>
I'm running mutt in rxvt windows on Solaris (2.6 at the moment) and
have got colours set up OK. It did take a bit of fiddling about to
get it all to work correctly though. Feel free to E-Mail me direct
if you want more information.
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