On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, at 9:02 AM, Marcus C. Gottwald wrote: > > Trey Sizemore wrote (Mon 2020-Aug-10 07:53:17 -0400): > > > If I set xfce4-terminal to transparent, it works as expected. > > > > If I then start mutt from from xfce4-terminal, the only transparency are > > messages highlighted in some way (new, from me, flagged) All other mails > > are set against a black background. > > I can confirm at least part of what you have observed (using > Debian buster). I believe the background color in Mutt is > set to "black" for most things. Setting the background color > to "default" makes it transparent in my case. > > You'll probably have to set the background color of several > objects to "default" (in your muttrc). I'd suggest to start > with the object called "normal". > > Cheers, Marcus > Hi Marcus-
It looks like default is used in the majority of cases in my .muttrc: # On to the colors color attachment blue default color header brightblue default "^message-id:" color header red default "^x-mailer:" color header red default "^user-agent:" color header red default "^x-operating-system:" color header blue default "^date: " color header brightblue default "^from: " color header green default "^subject: " color header brightblue default "^to: " color header brightblue default "^cc: " color header brightblue default "^in-reply-to: " color index magenta default ~F color index red default ~D color index blue default ~T color index brightblue default ~N #color index brightgreen default '~p' # mail to myself color index brightcyan default '~P' # mail from myself color indicator brightwhite blue color markers red default color quoted magenta default color quoted1 yellow default color quoted2 cyan default color quoted3 green default color quoted4 magenta default color quoted5 yellow default color quoted6 cyan default color quoted7 green default color signature brightblue default #color search brightyellow default # search matches color search brightwhite brightblue color status brightwhite green color tilde cyan default color tree blue default #color body brightyellow default "(https?|ftp|gopher|finger)://([^"'"'"' \t\r\n)>.,!?&]|[.,!?][^"'"'"' \t\r\n)>.,!?&]|&([^g]|$)|&g([^t]|$)|>([^;]|$))+" color body magenta default "[;:]-[)/(|]" # colorise smileys color body magenta default "[;:][)/(|]" color body brightyellow default "(http|https|ftp|news|telnet|finger)://[^ ]*" color body brightblue default "\\b[^ ]+://[^ ]*" color body black default "(^| )_[-a-z0-9_]+_[,.?]?[ \n]" -- Trey Sizemore t...@fastmail.fm
