Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/06/21/10:23:18
FWIW, starting over with a new console window and setting
the exact same settings solved the problem. If I put the two
console windows up side-by-side, walk through the properties,
will look completely identical. But if I call up mutt in
each window, using the same .muttrc, one looks fine while the
other one is pink-on-violet-with-black-highlights. Go figure...
Tom
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 04:39:33AM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
> FWIW, I was able to get decent-looking colors again by tweaking
> the color settings in .muttrc, but now none of the various
> sets of color settings I found on the net (such as Sven's)
> look anything like what they are supposed to look like.
> As if the behavior of color settings generally, in any bash
> window, had been altered in a persistent way.
>
> Oh well, as long as I can work around it...
> Tom
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 05:47:32PM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
> > Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
> > Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:47:32 +0200
> > From: Thomas Baker <thomas DOT baker AT bi DOT fhg DOT de>
> > To: Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> > Subject: Console colors out of control
> > Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Baker <thomas DOT baker AT bi DOT fhg DOT de>,
> > Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
> >
> > I invoke bash under WIN2000 with a .bat file that executes bash
> > --login -i. Wanting to tweak the colors of the bash window
> > (Properties -> Colors -> Screen Text, etc), I wrote down the
> > Red-Green-Blue values and changed dark blue to black, etc.
> > This worked as expected.
> >
> > When I ran mutt, however, I suddenly had red and pink script
> > on a dark violet background. So I change the colors of the
> > console window back to the original values, and this works,
> > but mutt still comes up with wacky colors. Windows being
> > Windows, I reboot, but the wacky colors are still there
> > when I run mutt. I edit .muttrc, commenting out the color
> > assignments, but still they remain.
> >
> > My guess is that this is not a mutt problem per se, but
> > something to do with the color basis that mutt is taking as its
> > starting point. Mutt wouldn't go and recalibrate its settings
> > on its own, would it?
> >
> > My question is: is this a Cygwin-specific problem, or is it
> > purely Windows-related? Any suggestions on how to get my
> > readable colors back? I'm reduced to reading my email in
> > ten-minute shifts...!
> >
> > Tom
> >
> >
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