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 Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 11:47:40 +0100 From: Olaf =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=F6llinger?= To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 256 colors for bash/rxvt-2.7.10-4 ? Message-ID: <20040304104740.GC1944@bln.sesa.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <256199726.20040304113527@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <256199726.20040304113527@gmx.de> X-Request-PGP: http://www.foellinger.de/olaf.foellinger.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:35:27AM +0100, Mikka wrote: > Hi list, > > according to rumors, the current build of the rxvt package enables 256 > colour support, at least I was able to do some sort of > > ,-----[ .Xdefaults extract ]----- > | Rxvt*cursorColor: GreenYellow > | Rxvt*color1: OrangeRed > `------------------- > > settings in my .Xdefaults file. > Now, I can't figure out how to use those predefined colorX values for my > prompt settings, PS1, PS2, ... etc. I've played a little bit while searching the answer to your question and came to the following result: Set the following values in .Xdefaults. $ cat .Xdefaults Rxvt*color0: #000000 Rxvt*color1: #A80000 Rxvt*color2: #00A800 Rxvt*color3: #A8A800 Rxvt*color4: #0000A8 Rxvt*color5: #A800A8 Rxvt*color6: #00A8A8 Rxvt*color7: #A8A8A8 Rxvt*color8: #000054 Rxvt*color9: #FF0054 Rxvt*color10: #00FF54 Rxvt*color11: #FFFF54 Rxvt*color12: #0000FF Rxvt*color13: #FF00FF Rxvt*color14: #00FFFF Rxvt*color15: #FFFFFF Now we have defined 16 Colours out of 256. These 16 colours can now be used in rxvt refering to them by name(colorX) or number. I would gladly see how to use more than 16 colours in rxvt. Gruss Olaf Föllinger -- Olaf Föllinger Berater S.E.S.A. Software und Systeme AG -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/