Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 12:17:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Colors in Cygwin window In-Reply-To: <714864C61F42474DA303505B01544D1549E70B@hermes.scopus.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Alex Vinokur wrote: > How can we change colors in Cygwin window ? > > I can change 'screen text and screen background' using windows properties. > However I dont know how to change 'prompt color'. > Thanks in advance, > Alex Vinokur Alex, In your /etc/profile, find a line starting with 'export PS1=' (there may be several, find the one for bash). In the value of PS1 you'll see "escape sequences" (things starting with \033). The escape sequences that change the colors are of the form '\033[99m', where 99 is the 2-digit color value (same as in dircolors, 'dircolors --print-database' for details). Change the color values to something more pleasing, or remove the escape sequences altogether for the default foreground color. Hope this helps, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! It took the computational power of three Commodore 64s to fly to the moon. It takes a 486 to run Windows 95. Something is wrong here. -- SC sig file -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/