Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/30/18:02:58
Richard Lynch (Contractor) wrote:
> Noobie cygwin alert!
>
> Hopefully this isn't too verbose...
Well, I stopped reading about halfway through...
> I like color-coding of ls and vim and man and all that.
> But I can't handle the default color scheme. My eyes are too old.
>
> So I changed the colors in cygwin DOS-like shell preferences to black
> foreground and white background.
>
> This was great, except that all the built-in Un*x tools such as ls, less,
> man, etc are still assuming the original color scheme.
> [snip]
It sounds like what you want to do is leave the color codes alone and
change the mapping, which is done in your terminal emulator and will
affect ALL programs (because you are changing how your terminal emulator
presents colors). This will let you make white black, black white, and
so forth; any programs that are still broken when using this method are
just plain broken. Note: you want to EDIT the color values, not just
pick different colors for foreground, background, etc. So if you are
using the CUI, be sure to re-select the right color before hitting 'ok'.
If you are using the CUI (started your shell from a .bat file or ran
bash.exe directly), right-click the title bar, pick 'properties' and go
to the 'colors' tab (you might also find the 'font' tab useful; it will
let you change the text size).
If you are using Marko's excellent Console (which can be obtained from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/console), go to Edit->Settings; colors
are in 'Console' which is active by default, the font is under 'Appearance'.
If you are using rxvt, you will have to use command line switches, which
means you must do some reading; either the manpage ('man rxvt') or find
the shell script I wrote; it is in the thread "Re: copying and pasting
in the terminal window?" in the talk list (which also "discusses" the
benefits and drawbacks of Console vs. rxvt).
--
Matthew
Now where did I put my hippo?
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