Re: default color profile of mutt

Michael Goerz wrote:
Okay, I wasn't specific enough on my problem. I do have my own mutt file, and there are colors defined in it (copied from some example on the web.) And, these colors are part of the total appearance on my system, which I'm trying to reproduce (if I take out the 'source ~/.mutt/colors' from my .muttrc, it's all black and white, so that's SuSE's default).

Hmm. There's not ~/.mutt/ directory at all here. openSUSE 10.3.


Now what was confusing me was this: I copied my entire mutt profile a a machine on my school's cluster. When I ssh'd in, and started mutt, it looked different than it looked on my machine. Most notably, the background in the index is black. The main problem, though, is that there are really ugly contrasts: the ascii-art-"arrows" that indicate threads still have a white background. Likewise, the header when viewing a message.
My thinking was that the reason for these differences was that my own .muttrc did not specify the color for all configurable elements (which it probably doesn't), and that the remaining elements got their color from some global config file. Hence I was asking what the global config file might be.

Here, I didn't touch the mutt configuration. It's a clean 10.3 install (not update from a previous openSUSE version). There's only a ~/.muttrc file and everything looks correctly. No weird stuff. I even copied this ~/.muttrc to a Fedora and a Slackware box and it worked; mutt looked exactly like on my openSUSE 10.3 box.

So I'd say something weird is happening with yours :P Is it a clean install? If not, then I guess distro updates keep a lot of old configurations around (after all, that's why you chose to update instead of installing clean, or? :P)
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