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Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 12:50:34 -0800
To: Barry Goldstein <bag AT shore DOT net>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Screen color question
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Barry,

If you're using the Windows console, open the properties dialog, either of 
the shortcut you use to start your Cygwin shell or of an existing window 
(use the window menu) and view the "Colors" pane. There you can control the 
foreground (text) and background colors for plain text (i.e., when an 
application does not itself issue color-changing escape sequences).

For RXVT you need to alter the command that starts up the emulator (again, 
presumably in a shortcut). The "-fg" and "-bg" options set the foreground 
and background colors, resp. "Man rxvt" for more details.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 12:39 2002-03-06, Barry Goldstein wrote:
>I installed cygwin and have been using it pretty much as it came "out of 
>the box" (on an NT4 box).
>
>As installed (with the bash shell), it displays light green on black 
>background and I'm going blind. I searched the faq, etc., and found all 
>sorts of stuff about setting colors in vim or emacs, but nothing about 
>setting the colors in the vanilla shell.
>
>Thanks.
>
>BG


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