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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:33:54 -0800
From: Gary Johnson <garyjohn AT spocom DOT com>
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Subject: Re: mintty colors
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On 2010-03-03, Reid Thompson wrote:
> 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

[...]

Thanks, but I guess my explanation wasn't clear enough.  What I
would like to be able to configure are the colors that mintty uses
to display the 16 colors of a 16-color terminal.  I guess these are
termed ANSI colors.  These are the colors that programs such as
grep, ls and vim use when executed in a color terminal.

My specific problem is that the blue that mintty displays for ANSI
color 4 or 12 is so dark that blue characters are illegible on a
black background.  I've adjusted the color that rxvt uses by putting

    Rxvt.color12:		#007fff
    Rxvt.color4:		#007fff

in my ~/.Xdefaults file, but I can't find the equivalent, if there
is one, for mintty.  There is some mention of this in the mintty man
page, in the section on "Changing the ANSI colours", but that is not
the same as being able to configure mintty so that it always uses a
particular palette.

Regards,
Gary


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