[solved] mutt with tiling window managers = bad = how to improve?

Question

Hi guys
I want to use mutt as my mail client. I've tested several others, but none fits me better. It has to be a cli application, because that's just the way I want it to be.
The only thing I don't like about mutt is its inability to handle resizing terminals. This is something which happens all the time with tiling window managers. Let me demonstrate with screenshots.
mutt as it's supposed to look http://www.unstucc.de/myspace/mutt-normal.png
mutt how it looks after the screen got resized. http://www.unstucc.de/myspace/mutt-resized.png
Hitting Ctrl+l rerenders mutt's interface, but this is really going on my nerves.
I run mutt in urxvt, but I also tested it with xterm, comparable result (it's a little bit better in xterm, but still not perfect)
I've been searching for this for quite a while now and I can't find ideas how to solve this.
Any help is very appreciated.
Last edited by Army (2011-03-31 23:55:27)

Answer 1

May I see your .Xdefaults file? Maybe you have some urxvt settings I don't have. Here's mine
URxvt.foreground:white
URxvt.background:black
URxvt.inheritPixmap:true
URxvt.scrollBar:false
URxvt.shading:40
URxvt.fading:20
URxvt.font:xft:Terminus:pixelsize=12:antialias=false
URxvt.boldFont:xft:Terminus:bold:pixelsize=12:antialias=false
URxvt.internalBorder:0
URxvt.externalBorder:0
URxvt.perl-ext-common:default,selection,url-select,keyboard-select,clipboard
URxvt.colorUL:blue
URxvt.keysym.M-u:perl:url-select:select_next
URxvt.keysym.M-Escape: perl:keyboard-select:activate
URxvt.keysym.Mod4-s: perl:keyboard-select:search
URxvt.keysym.Mod4-c: perl:clipboard:copy
URxvt.keysym.Mod4-v: perl:clipboard:paste
URxvt.keysym.Mod4-C-v: perl:clipboard:paste_escaped
URxvt.urlLauncher:web-open
URxvt.underlineURLs:true
URxvt.urgentOnBell:true
I wanted to try sup, but this app never ran here, always because of some compatibility issues with Arch's ruby afair. But I could give it another try some day.
edit: Just tried it again, the dependencies don't build ... I don't like ruby stuff!!!
But since it seems like the problem I have might be solvable, I'd recommend to stick with mutt and solve this.
By the way, here are the settings in my muttrc
source /etc/Muttrc.gpg.dist
set header_cache = "~/.mutt/cache/headers"
set message_cachedir = "~/.mutt/cache/bodies"
set certificate_file = "~/.mutt/certificates"
set delete
set sort = "threads"
set sort_aux = "last-date-received"
set imap_check_subscribed
set imap_keepalive = 60
set imap_idle
set imap_passive="yes"
set mail_check=5
set mailcap_path = "~/.mutt/mailcap"
unset copy
unset autoedit
set include
set attribution = "* %n <%a> [%(%d.%m.%Y %H:%M)]:"
set reply_regexp = "^((re([\[^-][0-9]+\]?)*|aw|antwort|antw|wg):[ \t]*)+"
set edit_hdrs
set beep_new = yes
set net_inc=5
set move
alternative_order text/plain text/html
set editor = 'vim -c "syntax on" -c "/^$" -c "set tw=0"'
#set alias_file = ~/.mutt/mail_aliases
set query_command="goobook query '%s'"
bind editor <Tab> complete-query
macro index,pager a |'goobook add'\n
# bindings -- very vim-like
bind pager q exit
bind pager t toggle-quoted
bind pager / search
bind pager <up> previous-line
bind pager <down> next-line
bind pager k previous-line
bind pager j next-line
bind pager gg top
bind pager G bottom
bind index gg first-entry
bind index G last-entry
bind pager K previous-undeleted
bind pager J next-undeleted
bind index K previous-unread
bind index J next-unread
bind index,pager R group-reply
#Attachments lila
color attachment magenta default
#Fehler rot
color error red default
#Der Header Gelb, Subject (Betreff) leuchtend, das To in weiß
color header brightyellow default "^Subject: "
color header white default "^To:"
color hdrdefault yellow default
#Der "Leuchtbalken"
color indicator black white
color markers brightblue default
#Die Nachricht selbst auch bunt machen; dabei je Quotingebene eine andere Farbe --> bringt Übersicht
color message white default
color normal white default
color quoted yellow default
color quoted1 green default
color quoted2 cyan default
color quoted3 red default
#die Signatur nicht so hell anzeigen
color signature brightblack default
#Statuszeile in blau-gelb
color status brightyellow blue
auto_view text/html
set charset=utf-8
Last edited by Army (2011-03-31 23:05:13)