So I have a slightly strange problem regarding launchers and mate-terminal. I know there are issues with using the ‘application in terminal’ setting defaulting to xterm, but this is about using ‘mate-terminal -e …’ and getting 256 colours.
Essentially I have mutt using the solarized colour scheme which requires 256 colours. This works if I set
export TERM=xterm-256color
in .bashrc
If I open the terminal and type
mutt
I see the colorscheme in 256 colours
If I open the terminal and type
mate-terminal
then type
mutt
in the terminal that comes up, I still get 256 colours.
However, if I type
mate-terminal -e mutt
I get a slew of errors about colors:
Error in /home/d/.muttrc, line 62: source: errors in /home/d/.mutt/mutt-colors-solarized-master/mutt-colors-solarized-dark-256.muttrc.
source: errors in /home/d/.muttrc
The same happens if I use a launcher. Any suggestions hugely appreciated! I’m going to see if gnome-terminal helps me in the interim.