Re: Emacs colors in terminals

[jfr]

Have you tried this?

export TERM=xterm

or

export TERM=xterm-color



cothrige <cothrige@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If I open a gnome-terminal and type the command 'emacs -nw' it opens 
> without any complaint or problem, and the colours I see are those 
> specified in the init file.  However, if I instead start emacs using the 
> command 'gnome-terminal -e "emacs -nw"' the colours are wrong.  The mode-
> line colours are reversed, and everything else is just wrong in seemingly 
> random ways.  This also happens if emacs is started by any app started in 
> the same way.  For instance, if I start mutt using 'gnome-terminal -e 
> mutt' the emacs session it in turn starts for composing or editing will 
> have the wrong colours just as if emacs had been started that way.  I 
> have also found this same behaviour in xfce4-terminal and xterm.
> 
> I am wondering if there is some obvious cause for this behaviour, and is 
> there a way I can convince emacs to behave normally when started in ways 
> other than a direct command typed in at the prompt of the terminal it is 
> running in?