Hardware cursor and console colours resetting when starting mutt

[David Woodfall]

On Sunday 30 September 2018 08:17,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> put forth the proposition:
> Does the behaviour persist if you don't use screen? I'm wondering if screen's terminal management is
> reseting your cursor change.
>
> Conversely, does the behaviour occur if you use screen but don't use mutt (but _do_ use some other curses
> programme like vim inside screen)?
>
> Just trying to isolate where the reset is coming from. And I don't have a convenient linux framebuffer
> console to test against (though I should set one up).

I just tried to boot with just a plain VGA console to see if there was any
difference and it automatically created a framebuffer anyway.  Maybe that's
normal with recent kernels?

[  +0.177830] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[  +0.074936] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 200x56
[  +0.024963] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device

> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>

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Dave

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