mutt not showing transparency in xfce4-terminal

[Trey Sizemore]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, at 9:02 AM, Marcus C. Gottwald wrote:
> 
> Trey Sizemore wrote (Mon 2020-Aug-10 07:53:17 -0400):
> 
> > If I set xfce4-terminal to transparent, it works as expected.
> > 
> > If I then start mutt from from xfce4-terminal, the only transparency are messages highlighted in some way (new, from me, flagged)  All other mails are set against a black background.
> 
> I can confirm at least part of what you have observed (using
> Debian buster). I believe the background color in Mutt is
> set to "black" for most things. Setting the background color
> to "default" makes it transparent in my case.
> 
> You'll probably have to set the background color of several
> objects to "default" (in your muttrc). I'd suggest to start
> with the object called "normal".
> 
> Cheers, Marcus
> 
Hi Marcus-

It looks like default is used in the majority of cases in my .muttrc:

# On to the colors
color   attachment  blue         default
color   header      brightblue        default  "^message-id:"
color   header      red        default  "^x-mailer:"
color   header      red        default  "^user-agent:"
color   header      red        default  "^x-operating-system:"
color   header      blue         default  "^date: "
color   header      brightblue   default  "^from: "
color   header      green        default  "^subject: "
color   header      brightblue   default  "^to: "
color   header      brightblue   default  "^cc: "
color   header      brightblue   default  "^in-reply-to: "
color   index       magenta        default  ~F
color   index       red          default  ~D
color   index       blue         default  ~T
color   index       brightblue   default  ~N
#color  index     brightgreen    default  '~p'    # mail to myself
color   index     brightcyan    default  '~P'    # mail from myself
color   indicator   brightwhite  blue
color   markers     red          default
color   quoted      magenta      default
color   quoted1     yellow      default
color   quoted2     cyan        default
color   quoted3     green       default
color   quoted4     magenta      default
color   quoted5     yellow      default
color   quoted6     cyan        default
color   quoted7     green       default
color   signature   brightblue   default
#color   search     brightyellow  default      # search matches
color   search      brightwhite  brightblue
color   status      brightwhite  green
color   tilde       cyan         default
color   tree        blue         default
#color          body    brightyellow  default "(https?|ftp|gopher|finger)://([^"'"'"' \t\r\n)>.,!?&]|[.,!?][^"'"'"' \t\r\n)>.,!?&]|&([^g]|$)|&g([^t]|$)|&gt([^;]|$))+"
color   body      magenta         default  "[;:]-[)/(|]"  # colorise smileys
color   body      magenta         default  "[;:][)/(|]"
color   body      brightyellow     default  "(http|https|ftp|news|telnet|finger)://[^ ]*"
color   body      brightblue     default  "\\b[^ ]+://[^ ]*"
color   body        black        default  "(^| )_[-a-z0-9_]+_[,.?]?[ \n]"


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  Trey Sizemore
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