Re: 'xterm -e mutt' doesn't show colors

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:39:56 +0200
Pieter Verberne wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I run mutt (or tmux/colorls -G/etc) from xterm, I have fancy
> colors=] But when I run:
>
> $ xterm -e mutt
>
> I don't have colors =[ (I'm running dwm and I want xterm to start tmux
> automaticly)
>
> $ cat .Xdefaults
> XTerm.*.colorMode: on # yes, two capitals
> XTerm.*.dynamicColors: on
> xterm.*.loginShell: true
> xterm.*.scrollBar: false
> xterm.*faceName: Mono
> xterm.*faceSize: 13
> xterm.*.visualBell: true
Add xterm*termName: xterm-color (or xterm-xfree86 if you prefer)
>
> $ echo $TERM
> xterm-xfree86
>
> All other settings in .Xdefaults are applied just fine with the '-e'
> option, so I don't think it's a problem with that file or with
> xterm-options; -title -T or -n .
>
> Can someone help me with this puzzle?
>
> Pieter