Re: Color problem

On Thu, 19 May 2005, Chris Green wrote:

> Well I thought it was all sorted, however my new tin installation
> seems to have a problem with the colours.
>
> I copied the .tin/tinrc file and all was well *except* for the default
> colours, I have col_normal=-1 and col_back=-1 so that I get the
> existing terminal screen colours.  This works on the system where I
> originally had tin installed but on my home system tin changes the
> colours.
>
> I have my terminal windows set up with a light grey background (almost
> white) and use black text for normal text.  This works fine with mutt
> and when running tin on the remote system but when running tin on my
> home system tin changes the background to black and the foreground to
> white.  Why does it do this with the variables set to -1?
>
> Where is tin getting these colours from?

The -1's represent default color, which is a feature of ncurses.
Solaris and other vendor curses implementations don't support that.

There's some logic in tin's initialization to make it try to do the
right thing when it's reading a -1 on a system that doesn't support
it (but that's by reverting it to a black or white color as you have
observed).

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