Re: Backround and foreground colours

On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:35:56PM +1000, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:45:53PM +1000, andrew wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:14:46PM +1000, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
> > 
> > > I use slrn in cygwin in a X window opened by startx. This gives me a
> > > white or maybe very light gray background, which I prefer. I run mutt in
> > > this window also. Mutt runs with colours and black on the same white
> > > background. Slrn however runs with white and colours on a black
> > > background. I have tried changing the default color stuff in .slrnrc to
> > > get black and colours on a white backround, but nothing works completey.
> > > There is always some black ground. Is there an example anywhere of a
> > > slrn.rc file that gives me what I want? I can not find one.
> > 
> > I run black text on a white background myself, although I believe
> > that you and I are a minority :-). Have you tried "default" for the
> > background rather than "white"?.
> 
> Just about to try that. Thanks.

It works fine. Many thanks. I used the slrn.rc stuff you sent me
privately. I am back on black on white. Maybe a bit of treaking will be
good, but I'll stay with your colour scheme for now.

I did not use default in my earlier trials but I still do not know why
it did not work. Never mind.

Cheers, Brian.
  
> > > I'm using the recent 0.9.9 version with slang 2.1.3. I compiled the
> > > former and obtained the latter as a binary from the slrn site, both
> > > fairly recently
> > 
> > Actually there are no binaries on the slrn site and the copy of S-Lang
> > 2.1.3 is there really for 'emergency' use in case JED's site dies =
> > probably highly unlikely. S-Lang should really come from:
> > 
> > http://www.jedsoft.org/slang/
> 
> Sorry, that is where I got it from.
> 
> Brian.
>  
> > Looks like I need to talk to the fellow that put that file on the slrn
> > web site and set him straight :-).
> > 
> >   Andrew
> > 
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