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Re: color problem (1/2)



* parv <parv@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> in message <Pine.BSI.4.53.0402261523050.22975@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> wrote Thomas Dickey thusly...
> >
> > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
> > 
> > > i tried this after compiling mutt with both ncurses and slang. both ways i
> > > get the same behaviour... something in mutt must be saying "make this text
> > > a bright color *and* a bold weight".
> > >
> > > in pine, these are the 16 colors i can pick from:
> > >   http://atom.smasher.org/tmp/pine-16-color.png
> > > which is the same colors i can make my display show:
> > >   http://atom.smasher.org/tmp/color2.png
> > >
> > > in mutt, i can only seem to get half of those colors :(
> > > unless i also use *BOLD* fonts, which is hard to read on my system.
> > >
> > > i really need a way to use all 16 colors and not have half of them
> > > automatically make the text BOLD.
> > >
> > > can this be done?
> > 
> > As someone pointed out on comp.mail.mutt, this is a feature of your
> > terminal emulator, not related to mutt in any way.
> 
> Speaking of which...
> 
> [...]
> 
> ...all the while having in ~/.Xdefaults for xterm from XFree86 4.2.0 ...
> 
>   XTerm.VT100*font: -*-screen-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
>   XTerm.VT100*boldFont: -*-screen-bold-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-90-iso8859-1
>   XTerm.VT100*boldColors:  true

That works great for me (using aterm equivalents) but I also wanted
_more_: Because I run mutt in a screen session together with irssi and
other programs i.e. centericq, I would like only mutt making ignore bold
fonts, because in some other programs bold fonts are nice... Is that
possible?

Julius
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