In comp.mail.mutt Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> * Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>:
>> I recall asking for an example to substantiate this remark before,
>> but saw none.
> I often use xoverlay to look at videoes/tv. However I usually put a
> xtern with the xoverlay color on top of mplayer to be able to work while
> I keep watching whatever. Usually I have a light background while
> watching tv/video I have a dark background. However to be able to work
> with the xoverlay stuff the background of my application always has to
> be the 'default' background color of the xterm.
> It isn't possible to obtain that with ncurses, but with slang. hmm - no. ncurses and slang are equivalent in their capabilities here.
For ncurses, it is activated by function calls, e.g., use_default_colors.
You're either describing a difference in the way mutt is coded, or some
other configuration issue. Just checking, for example (with lynx where
those aren't a factor, I see the so-called transparency, while Debian's
mutt 1.5.4i with libncursesw doesn't).
Looking a little further (compiling 1.5.6 myself), I do indeed get the
transparency. Perhaps you should file a bug report against the appropriate
package - whatever problem is actually there isn't in the original sources.
> Apart from that I remember only one benefit (a bug in ncurses which
> doesn't trigger in slang, but I don't remeber the details). However the
> feature described above is vital for me!
> Thomas --
Thomas E. Dickey
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