Re: 'xterm -e mutt' doesn't show colors

2009-06-18 Thread Pieter Verberne
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:55:44AM +0200, Pierre-Yves Ritschard wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:39:56 +0200 > Pieter Verberne wrote: > > When I run mutt (or tmux/colorls -G/etc) from xterm, I have fancy > > colors=] But when I run: > > > > $ xterm -e mutt > > > > I don't have colors =[ (I'm runn

Re: 'xterm -e mutt' doesn't show colors

2009-06-18 Thread Tom
Try this in .Xdefaults: XTerm*termName: xterm-color Works great for me.

Re: 'xterm -e mutt' doesn't show colors

2009-06-18 Thread Pierre-Yves Ritschard
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:39:56 +0200 Pieter Verberne wrote: > Hi, > > When I run mutt (or tmux/colorls -G/etc) from xterm, I have fancy > colors=] But when I run: > > $ xterm -e mutt > > I don't have colors =[ (I'm running dwm and I want xterm to start tmux > automaticly) > > $ cat .Xdefaults >

Re: 'xterm -e mutt' doesn't show colors

2009-06-17 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Todd T. Fries wrote: > Try TERM=xterm-color That's not the issue. TERM=xterm-xfree86 does include color support and is generally the best description of our xterm's capabilities. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de

Re: 'xterm -e mutt' doesn't show colors

2009-06-17 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Pieter Verberne wrote: > When I run mutt (or tmux/colorls -G/etc) from xterm, I have fancy > colors=] But when I run: > > $ xterm -e mutt > > I don't have colors =[ > $ echo $TERM > xterm-xfree86 Where is TERM set? I suspect "xterm -e ..." simply doesn't pick up this setting. When you run "

Re: 'xterm -e mutt' doesn't show colors

2009-06-17 Thread Todd T. Fries
Try TERM=xterm-color Penned by Pieter Verberne on 20090617 22:39.56, we have: | Hi, | | When I run mutt (or tmux/colorls -G/etc) from xterm, I have fancy | colors=] But when I run: | | $ xterm -e mutt | | I don't have colors =[ (I'm running dwm and I want xterm to start tmux | automaticly) | |