remote shells hang / local shells have color probs

Xor · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Posts: 144

hi folks

I'm using Gentoo 1.4 and can't get mutt running with colors... it just shows nothing instead of colored text... if I mark it in the terminal the lines become colored bars, but no text

when I connect to my other system (debian) and execute a cat on some text-file or open man the shell hangs.

I am a little bit lost as I have _no_ idea why this happens....

thanks
xor

rac · Posted: Thu Nov 28, 2002 7:07 pm Post subject:

Is this in a console or an xterm? Does playing around with your TERM envariable help? I use Eterm, and I often find myself having to set TERM to xterm in order to have remote sessions work correctly with ncurses.
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Xor · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Posts: 144

it happens in console or xterms

I set the TERM to linux,vt100,yterm - (all the values I found on google

) but nothing helped.
every time I made a cat or man the session hung.... right now I can't reproduce...

mutt displays localy no colors but when I connect to another maschine mutt works... remote and local $TERM is xterm