Re: Display problem
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On Friday, November 30 at 07:30 AM, quoth Steve:
> If you have an application which is supposed to use 256-colour mode
> and it isn't working, you may find you need to tell your server that
> your terminal supports 256 colours. On Unix, you do this by ensuring
> that the setting of TERM describes a 256-colour-capable terminal.
> You can check this using a command such as infocmp:
>
> $ infocmp | grep colors
> colors#256, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#256,
> If you do not see ‘colors#256’ in the output, you may need to
> change your terminal setting. On modern Linux machines, you
> could try ‘xterm-256color’.
>
>
> So I tried this commande on my linux box :
>
> infocmp | grep color
> colors#8, cols#80, it#8, lines#24, pairs#64,
>
> No "color256". Coulf this have an effect on my problem ?
Possibly. Try setting TERM to putty-256color, or if that doesn't work,
xterm-256color.
> I tried to run mutt in a xterm (locally) and I got exactly the same
> behaviour. And now I'm really becoming completely confused (and a
> bit frustrated: I showed mutt to a friend yesterday night, telling
> him that "All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." but this
> problem suddenly arised, all he said is "well this one sucks
> too!"...
Heh, I understand the frustration. :) We'll figure it out eventually.
Anyway, hrm, if it has the same problem in an xterm, as long as your
TERM was something obvious like 'xterm', then we're dealing with
something more insidious than a bad terminal emulation... but
unfortunately we're beginning to get out of my depth. I'd say try to
reproduce the problem inside a `script` environment (i.e. run 'script'
before running mutt, and after the problem develops, close the
terminal) and post it somewhere so that people who know what's going
on can examine things more closely.
~Kyle
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