X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_HR,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andy Subject: Bashrc distinguish between mintty and x-windows xterm Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 00:38:59 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 8 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 My bashrc sets the color of the prompt depending on $TERM. My x-windows xterm has a white background and the cygwin default terminal, which has a black background, use to not have $TERM=xterm. I could distinguish between them in the bashrc script, and set the prompt colours accordingly. Now with mintty emulating an xterm, $TERM takes on the string "xterm" (but it has a black background). I would like to find a simple bash script way to tell the difference between when bashrc is being called from a mintty versus an actual x-windows xterm. Can anyone suggest a way? -- 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