X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com
DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date
	:message-id:subject:to:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=xOwpiLD
	7WBAAMoc787RH2Sa6hYFpxnlwuTBZ97vPnUmn0CykcKTwN/8MNR9VlIxQijU6s2D
	7qwiwAZ3d0XPSkjvKqOUiX7m5498ANo9TOxuQMM/RY+tk+bViouYsM37VuSA9ZAb
	CSQL3e3Eh/Duf8U+gEGxmnwR4waSmdBdpJec=
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id
	:list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post
	:list-help:sender:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date
	:message-id:subject:to:content-type; s=default; bh=e4k3laOSOh2b+
	d2OP1dMEgqMgZ4=; b=PEYYCWHAMAzuZ5WYHvUd+8cikPN4P06PPESgQMAxAfCll
	sXElpW0Jk4tfip30NqubC1v3bJKJU26KfFc3ba7XVG6bBrdVYAkyC3tjEB7Oto18
	9V1KjVEvFgYbLhcQCNrYJRyaGrneO4o2DUWZ1/IVSVfQ9vOPYS8qk9PoRggMfg=
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none
X-Virus-Found: No
X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=jamesdarnleygmailcom, sk:jamesd, U*james.darnley, sk:james.d
X-HELO: mail-yw0-f174.google.com
X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;        d=1e100.net; s=20130820;        h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date         :message-id:subject:to;        bh=9CEr9Goi2xEhwsDyuTPySVmCJBafXeGN7AezK6unG4g=;        b=GoIq7tpMS2SlqRT/+qilO5eT3zd7DtzRofoOn2OOsXtksvYkgUWy/vguVy8lZrhJ6N         x2C3CNj0c+Lyk+HiGBAd7KXqBBemv4weEiApsxmg04iefgh+7Xo1ayIIxsazsLVJbk2Z         U5s8QByLEJzWt7HFFzdKnyJ9EbfvjlQx5VRxGGRly12Jma+roKddBwnld8W9YjRGsa5x         fr2RfD7m00a0gCWEFd7psHyMFrY/Bet+bvZzYRNKi/XulJEBxr5fXUzVbfkAqgcevqrz         ++emH36/pFyHL6bI8w03hig6hLBqiySZwGtUZGTWb6VcGvuczk1suWEIfy4WmDiOiepd         9w6Q==
X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwNKc0ghLSGiy5U9VArQoPhASp+vLowmiZiOwHntVBk14w8hlkCkePZee8Xmt9QY/AuaMv42gBLAvtL3iA==
X-Received: by 10.129.93.69 with SMTP id r66mr14694940ywb.15.1474037179301; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 07:46:19 -0700 (PDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <2c0d6fe2-a89c-7169-506a-937693b5aae4@gmail.com>
References: <CAA5t8VoO0AEJ1in1pf+iZc6yKyfDSdKZjt-gNYkMMKtjf9-6xA AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <2c0d6fe2-a89c-7169-506a-937693b5aae4 AT gmail DOT com>
From: David Karr <davidmichaelkarr AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 07:46:18 -0700
Message-ID: <CAA5t8VovaVyv-g7BsdGtw=tJYkumGO63o2M03B7HqPQx8M8MNg@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
X-IsSubscribed: yes

I've managed to resolve this.  I turned off color output in the cqlsh
config file. It doesn't provide a way that I can see to configure the
colors that are used, and black works perfectly fine for me.

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:46 AM, James Darnley <james DOT darnley AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> On 2016-09-15 22:47, David Karr wrote:
>> When I run mintty, the background is white, and normal text is black.
>> This is fine.  However, there are some applications that are
>> displaying text in other colors, many of which are fine, but some apps
>> display some text in yellow, which on a white background is almost
>> unreadable.
>>
>> For instance, the display from Cassandra's "cqlsh" shows the results
>> of queries in black, purple (probably not quite right), and yellow.
>> The worst part is, it's using yellow for the column values.
>>
>> Is there any way to control this, in general (obviously, not just for
>> cqlsh output)?
>
> Set Mintty's yellow colour to be something legible against your chosen
> background colour.
>
> (Come to think of it, I should rebase my old GUI colour selection patch.
>  I probably should update Mintty anyway.  But all that would require
> effort.)
>
> P.S.  Sorry about mailing you directly David.
>

--
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