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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:32:07 -0500
From: Reid Thompson <reid.thompson@ateb.com>
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On 3/3/2010 2:33 AM, Gary Johnson wrote:
> Thanks, but I guess my explanation wasn't clear enough.  What I
> would like to be able to configure are the colors that mintty uses
> to display the 16 colors of a 16-color terminal.  I guess these are
> termed ANSI colors.  These are the colors that programs such as
> grep, ls and vim use when executed in a color terminal.
>
> My specific problem is that the blue that mintty displays for ANSI
> color 4 or 12 is so dark that blue characters are illegible on a
> black background.  I've adjusted the color that rxvt uses by putting
>
>      Rxvt.color12:		#007fff
>      Rxvt.color4:		#007fff
>
> in my ~/.Xdefaults file, but I can't find the equivalent, if there
> is one, for mintty.  There is some mention of this in the mintty man
> page, in the section on "Changing the ANSI colours", but that is not
> the same as being able to configure mintty so that it always uses a
> particular palette.
> mple
>
ahh sorry.
you may have already seen this...
looks like there may not be one unless this change request and reversion was re-implemented
http://groups.google.com/group/mintty-discuss/browse_thread/thread/33cb565e4f32f146

It does appear to provide a means to do it yourself(recompile required).

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