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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=FoNx5gGCbkfJ+Zj3 GkpJqdRYfF7R6NytPahxxhpo96W1a4HspwTSDcDU7e8be6bNW0gXeXZDWcaNAF/B tVoOBOypFkCYzjt5lTqZDwdYpMAA8PVN4XHVAuo7vEor4DDT7zLzgIuARnvus/tq IVkeWlMVhO3gYzVp7wtYDRtCg90= 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:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=KtPVkriMjK24J2XtG5BKrR uRiFs=; b=JJyBsfcsKXS61M/cbSurq2HuD+j3eqSSnQNU+21iQS62MqcEyfRBfG l23SJ6insyVt6hzHcmUnVrK6ekTiRCc/Dw0AVGdi3ktv5E4gjMB9v5Y/rejoAHbI Ll2O44wTEtJq1i4rPFaUQ3FqRkVSy91XRRKiJwX/UIEXRFrLD25Zg= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=gray X-HELO: limerock04.mail.cornell.edu X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Subject: Re: Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <87wpciktid DOT fsf AT Rainer DOT invalid> <87o9tqs8c8 DOT fsf AT Rainer DOT invalid> From: Ken Brown Message-ID: <40991a4b-1e1c-4d03-f70f-8c77eb29bc7b@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 06:47:47 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87o9tqs8c8.fsf@Rainer.invalid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Cornell-Gauge: Gauge=XXXXX X-PMX-CORNELL-AUTH-RESULTS: dkim-out=none; X-IsSubscribed: yes On 6/14/2017 3:00 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Achim Gratz writes: >> After the latest Cygwin update I'm hitting an interesting problem with >> emacs-nox running in a mintty: when Emacs starts, it decides that the >> background color is gray instead of the usual white (for all but the >> rightmost character in the status line, interestingly enough). I have >> the normal mintty background set slightly off-white (to #F8F8F8) and >> mintty reports itself as xterm-256color (the same happens in when TERM >> is set to screen-256color). Emacs starts up with the correct background >> color, draws the status bar and the menu bar and only then switches the >> background to gray. The gray it choses is very slightly lighter than >> the status bar (so lightly in fact that I can make out the difference on >> only one of my three monitors). Emacs really thinks it is using a white >> background, as evidenced by the fact that (set-background-color "white") >> will produce exactly the same result. I get my usual background back >> with (set-background-color "#F8F8F8"), but I have no idea where the >> wrong setting for the named color "white" comes from. >> >> I'm just trying this at home remotely logging in from a konsole terminal >> on my Linux box: Here the background chosen is slightly darker than the >> status bar, the status bar seems to be #B8B8B8 and the background for >> "white seems to be #B4B4B4. Curious and curiouser... > > Ken, did you have a chance to look into this? Sorry, I must have missed this when you first sent it. I'll take a look. Ken -- 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