X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: Change dark blue terminal colour Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:40:40 -0700 Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <4F919E22.3060600@cygwin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 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!) -- Andrew DeFaria Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but not to their crotch when they ask where the toilet is? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple