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Old 10-23-2014, 09:47 AM   #1
iwtbf
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Transparent background in mutt


Hi, I know that this is a quite common question but I've googled like crazy and tried most of the fixes I've found with no results.

I want the background to be transparent in mutt but I can't get it to work. Some parts are transparent ( think it's sections and lines specified and defined by some regex rule for coloring) and all the normal body text and whitespace have a grey ugly background.


My color scheme is:

Code:
color hdrdefault cyan default
color attachment yellow default
 
color header brightyellow default "From: "
color header brightyellow default "Subject: "
color header brightyellow default "Date: "
 
color quoted green default
color quoted1 cyan default
color quoted2 green default
color quoted3 cyan default
 
color error red default # error messages
color message white default # message informational messages
color indicator white red # indicator for the "current message"
color status white blue # status lines in the folder index sed for the mini-help line
color tree red default # the "tree" display of threads within the folder index
color search white blue # search matches found with search within the internal pager
color markers red default # The markers indicate a wrapped line hen showing messages with looong lines
 
color index yellow default '~O'
color index yellow default '~N'
color index brightred default '~F' # Flagged Messages are important!
color index blue default '~D' # Deleted Mails - use dark color as these are already "dealt with"
And I've tried adding

Code:
COLORFGBG="default;default"
and/or
Code:
export COLORFGBG="default;default"
To my .bashrc, but with no luck.

If it matters I use debian testing together with enlightenment (e17) and my main terminal is terminator.

Any help to solve this would be highly appreciated!
 
Old 10-24-2014, 07:16 PM   #2
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This might help. It discusses transparency in Mutt, but it's a little cryptic.

http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/MuttFaq/Appearance
 
Old 04-18-2018, 03:05 AM   #3
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To get a transparent background in Mutt (i.e., a background with the same color as your terminal), put this in your muttrc:

Code:
# Make the foreground color of messages black and their
# background the same color as the terminal background
color normal black default
 
  


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