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Subject:	Re: Change dark blue terminal colour
Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:40:40 -0700
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On 4/20/2012 11:05 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 13:34, Larry Hall wrote:
>> If you're using mintty, edit ~/.minttyrc or change directly through the
>> "Options" dialog in the System menu.  If you're using cmd.exe (you should
>> update), change the colors through the "Properties" and "Default" dialogs
>> in the System menu.
>>
> Thanks. The $TERM variable says that it is xterm. In the terminal's
> context menu there is no options for overriding specifc colours, like
> Putty has.
It doesn't matter what $TERM says. It matters what terminal emulator you 
are running. If mintty then follow the suggestion above...
> Is there a general xterm configuration for overriding a specific
> colour? A few minutes on google didn't uncover anything.
If you are using xterm, have you tried man xterm? Either that or 
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=xterm. It's the 3rd entry. (My question is what 
were you doing for a few minutes on Google such that you didn't think to 
simply type in xterm!)
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