X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <44F63B59.7020506@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 21:28:57 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.5) Gecko/20060727 Fedora/1.5.0.5-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.5 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Color Schemes References: <83FFB2C3A0EAAB418A35DFA0FBCD60EC02312FAA AT nsc-exch DOT nationalsystems DOT com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com René Berber wrote: > Richard Lynch wrote: > >> This may be a generalized Un*x question, but I've been going in circles for >> awhile now, and cygwin is the current beast being beaten on. >> >> I like color-coding of ls and vim and man and all that. >> >> But I can't handle the default color scheme. My eyes are too old. >> >> So I changed the colors in cygwin DOS-like shell preferences to black >> foreground and white background. > [snip] >> I suspect (and hope) that I've just missed some mind-numbingly simple tool to >> change the color scheme system-wide... > > Simple alternative: use rxvt. > > Rxvt in its default mode appears as black over white, "man man" looks fine > because it doesn't try to use colors (under rxvt) instead it uses bold, "ls" > looks OK but not great, the executables appear as green over white... > > I use reverse video (white on black) so I'm not sure if there are other details > with the scheme you are trying to use. I guess I've become lost in the discussion of this problem and that. I always use cmd.exe with bash. I just change the colors for foreground and background to be what I want by picking "Defaults" from the system menu. I make my background white and my foreground black, click "OK" and I'm set to go. If I see an visual artifacts in any of the tools, I just close the window where I made these changes and open a new one. That seems to reset things just fine. After that, I never have to worry about the colors again. Can't say why if this doesn't just work for others. I've used this approach on multiple machines and I'm always happy with it. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/