On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 11:08:17AM -0500, David Mackintosh wrote:
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
David Mackintosh wrote:
Hiya folks, So. Clearly I have something set incorrectly so that Mutt (and/or the terminal I am using) do not understand the special characters. Can anyone point me in the right direction to find the answer as to how to fix this so that I can ditch Thunderbird and go back to Mutt?
It works for me with "TERM=gnome mutt".
Doesn't work. I probably should have mentioned that I see this problem in these terminals:
- putty on windows
- xterm on linux
- gnome-terminal on linux
- multi-gnome-terminal on linux
- linux on linux (ie logged into the console)
Doing an export TERM=vt100 before invoking mutt sometimes, but not always, can make some of these problems go away (but not this one).
This is an example of what I am seeing:
David:
I occasionally see display corruption in Mutt too. It always goes away (temporarily) by refreshing the screen with a CTRL-L, which leads me to believe it may be either a curses or terminal behavior problem.
So far I haven't figured out what it could be, and when I attempt to reproduce it so I can report it, it tends to be not reproducible.
I see it most often, though not exclusively, when at work using a VPN to connect to my home box for purposes of reading mail. I'm using the same Linux at work, and using the default gnome terminal I also use at home, where I hardly ever observe the problem.