* Bastian <bastian-muttu...@t6l.de> [06-20-22 08:33]: > I did not follow the entire thread, sorry for potential double post. > On 20Jun22 08:15+1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > On 07Jun2022 09:56, raf <m...@raf.org> wrote: > > >And I'm not sure I can do anything about it. > > There are many things you can do. I see you've already shifted to just > > using "bold" etc in your color directives, but also: > > On my systems, mutt is built and linked against ncurses. I could not > make it use 256 colors. I do not recall where, but I read somewhere on > the internet (and thus it must be true :) ) that mutt needs to be built > against slang to support 256 colors. I never tried that actually and I > just accept to only have the 16 default colors set in my Xdefaults. > Of course this might be total nonsense.
my mutt is built against ncurses 6.3.20220612 and I have 256 colors mutt -v |grep -i color +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc