On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Dave Price wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 05:58:02AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > > I tried you colors, and those object where default is specified as the > > > background, the aterm background shows thru - everything else - the > > > message body, and the main index background is still white on black. > > > > perhaps your $TERM is xterm-color (except for hardcoded applications that > > ignore $TERM, you won't see default colors working properly in that case). > > > it is rxvt in both cases - the difference, other than the mutt versions > is that one is running to a remote display (that one is good) and one is > local - the display in both cases is the dame box.
rereading - I addressed the wrong point. You have to use 'default' to get the background to show through in all cases (except where mutt is doing the wrong thing, of course ;-). -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net