Barry,
I think I misunderstood you last time. There are indeed color-changing
sequences in the prompt you've got (it originates in /etc/profile, by the
way). But when I use that prompt, the color change is restricted to the
prompt itself.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 13:49 2002-0
Barry,
When you confirmed the dialog, it asked you whether to apply the change
only to the current window or to all subsequent uses of the same shortcut
that created that window. If you did not start the shell via a shortcut,
then the second alternative is based on subsequent windows with the
I should have thought of that, but having done it, it doesn't stick -- the
next prompt restores the dim light-green-on-black.
So I think it's my prompt that is 'insisting' on the dimness.
The prompt strings are
PS1=$'\\[\\033]0;\\w\\007\n\\033[32m\\]\\u@\\h \\[\\033[33m\\w\\033[0m\\]\n$ '
PS2='
Barry,
If you're using the Windows console, open the properties dialog, either of
the shortcut you use to start your Cygwin shell or of an existing window
(use the window menu) and view the "Colors" pane. There you can control the
foreground (text) and background colors for plain text (i.e., w
At 03:39 PM 3/6/2002, Barry Goldstein wrote:
>I installed cygwin and have been using it pretty much as it came "out of
>the box" (on an NT4 box).
>
>As installed (with the bash shell), it displays light green on black
>background and I'm going blind. I searched the faq, etc., and found all
>sorts
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