On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Andre Wyrwa wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have the problem of having a non-colored mutt, when starting it in
> xterm. $TERM is "xterm".
> When I change $TERM to "linux" or "xterm-color" mutt will start with
> colors.
> So I guess it has something to do with terminfo. Unfortunately I don't
> know a lot about it. On my SuSE-System mutt starts colored within
a good place to start is www.google.com (search for "xterm")
as I point out 2-3 times a week, "xterm-color" is incorrect for XFree86
xterm, ditto "linux".
> xterm even with $TERM=xterm, so I guess they changed properties of the
> xterm-terminfo-file or mutt is looking for something else to determine
> if it should use colors or not.
>
> So, can someone help me with this?
> How can I tell xterm to use xterm-color instead of xterm terminfo
> without having to set $TERM manually?
see the man-page.
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