mutt not showing transparency in xfce4-terminal

[Trey Sizemore]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, at 10:50 AM, Remco Rijnders wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:38:04AM -0400, Trey wrote in 
> <1034f899-26d0-420b-b47a-485914fe069c at www.fastmail.com>:
> >On Mon, Aug 10, 2020, at 10:21 AM, Marcus C. Gottwald wrote:
> >>
> >> Trey Sizemore wrote (Mon 2020-Aug-10 09:58:48 -0400):
> >>
> >> > > [...] I'd suggest to start with the object called "normal".
> >> >
> >> > It looks like default is used in the majority of cases in my .muttrc:
> >
> >Not sure what is meant by your reply.
> 
> Hi Trey,
> 
> I think he meant that in your .muttrc, you might want to add an entry like:
> 
> color normal white default  (or whatever color combination)
> 
> similar to how you have it for header, body, index, and the other color entries.
> 
> Please also note the following in the Mutt manual, it probably does
> not apply for you, but be aware of it:
> 
> http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#color  :
> 
> If your terminal supports it, the special keyword default can be used
> as a transparent color. The value brightdefault is also valid. If Mutt
> is linked against the S-Lang library, you also need to set the
> $COLORFGBG environment variable to the default colors of your terminal
> for this to work; for example (for Bourne-like shells):
> 
> set COLORFGBG="green;black"
> export COLORFGBG
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Remco
> 

Adding the "color normal..." line appears to have fixed it for me.

Thank you both!

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  Trey Sizemore
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