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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:49:25 -0500
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On 3/2/2010 9:07 PM, Gary Johnson wrote:
> I have downloaded mintty-0.6-beta2-cygwin15.zip and read
> mintty-0.5.8.pdf, but I don't see a way to change the ANSI color
> palette other than to send escape sequences.  I could echo the
> escape sequences in my ~/.bashrc, but mintty isn't the only terminal
> I use.  I could wrap mintty in a shell script, but that seems a bit
> of a kludge.  Is there some other way to configure mintty's colors
> that I'm missing?
>
man mintty

CONFIGURATION
        Most settings are chosen not through command line arguments but in the graphical options dialog, which 
can be reached via the context menu
        or the window menu.  Settings are stored in an INI-style configuration file that by default is located 
at ~/.minttyrc.  This can be over-
        ridden with the --config command line option.  Settings are written to the file whenever the OK or 
Apply buttons are pressed in the
        options dialog.

        The following sections explain the settings on each pane of the options dialog.  For each setting, its 
name in the config file is shown in
        parentheses, along with its default value, e.g. Columns=80.  For multiple-choice settings, the value 
representing each choice in the con-
        fig file is shown.

    Looks
        Settings affecting mintty's appearance.

        Colours
               Clicking on one of the buttons here opens the colour selection dialog.  In the config file, 
colours are represented as comma-sepa-
               rated RGB triples with decimal 8-bit values (i.e. ranging from 0 to 255).

               - Foreground (ForegroundColour=191,191,191)
               - Background (BackgroundColour=0,0,0)
               - Cursor (CursorColour=191,191,191)

        Use system colours instead (UseSystemColours=0)
               If this checkbox is ticked, the Windows-wide colour settings are used instead of the colours 
chosen above.  (These are the same
               colours as used for example in Notepad.)

        Transparency (Transparency=0)
               Window transparency level, with the following choices:

               - Off (0)
               - Low (1)
               - Medium (2)
               - High (3)
               - Glass (-1)

        The Glass option is only available on Vista and above with desktop compositing enabled.  To make this 
reasonably usable, the glass colour
        needs to be set to be as dark as possible in the Windows control panel: choose Personalize from the 
desktop context menu, click on Window
        Color, turn the color intensity up to the maximum, show the color mixer, and turn the brightness down 
to black.

        Opaque when focused (OpaqueWhenFocused=0)
               Enable to make the window opaque when it is active (to avoid background distractions when 
working in it).

        Cursor (CursorType=2)
               The following cursor types are available:

               - Block (0)
               - Underscore (1)
               - Line (2)

        Enable cursor blinking (CursorBlinks=1)
               If enabled, the cursor blinks at the rate set in the Windows Keyboard control panel.

    Text
        Settings controlling text display.

        Font selection
               Clicking on the Select button opens a dialog where the font and its properties can be chosen. 
In the config file, this corresponds
               to the following entries:

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