Mutt blinks when using brightXXX as background colour

[Duncan]

Hi there,

When I add the "bright" prefix to a background color in my mutt conf
file, the background colour remains the same but flashes.

Is this default behaviour? Any ideas how this can be altered? I read
on the mutt FAQ that the colour grey can be achieved using
"brightblack", which of course just blinks for me at the moment!

I'm using muttng, so feel free to shout at me if this isn't a general
mutt issue.

Thanks a lot,

Duncan Jones

[Alain Bench]

Hello Duncan,

On Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 2:45:20 -0700, Duncan Jones wrote:

> When I add the "bright" prefix to a background color in my mutt conf
> file, the background colour remains the same but flashes.

That's a terminal thing. Depending on the terminal you use, it may
be altered via a terminal option like "blink attribute does bright
background" (or "enable blinking" or such), or on a 16 colors terminal
via "color8" instead of "brightblack". And of course a correct TERM
value exactly matching the used terminal may help.

Terminal thing, granted. But Mutt could help, by sending the blink
attribute only on 8 colors terms, and the real bright color on 16 colors
ones. Slrn does this automagicaly; Mutt doesn't.

> I'm using muttng, so feel free to shout at me if this isn't a general
> mutt issue.

Anyway Muttng questions are very welcome here.

Bye! Alain.
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[Duncan]

On 30 Aug, 09:30, Alain Bench <albench.N...@M.oreka.invalid> wrote:
<snip>

> That's a terminal thing. Depending on the terminal you use, it may
> be altered via a terminal option like "blink attribute does bright
> background" (or "enable blinking" or such), or on a 16 colors terminal
> via "color8" instead of "brightblack". And of course a correct TERM
> value exactly matching the used terminal may help.

<snip>

Thanks Alain, I'll give that a try.

[Thomas Dickey]

Alain Bench <albenc...@m.oreka.invalid> wrote:

> Terminal thing, granted. But Mutt could help, by sending the blink
> attribute only on 8 colors terms, and the real bright color on 16 colors
> ones. Slrn does this automagicaly; Mutt doesn't.

iirc, slang does this actually (if one links mutt with slang instead
of ncurses it'll get the same behavior).

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