Gary: > Is it possible to change the colour scheme when connecting to a remote > system, to remind me where I am actually "running"?
Yes. There are control sequences for changing the colours, so you could do this with the appropriate echo commands in your remote login script. Or you could have a local script that changes colours before connecting to the remote system. For example, to set the background colour to dark red: echo $'\e]12;64,0,0\a' Alternatively, you could invoke the remote connection directly from a shortcut and configure the colours by setting the shortcut target to something like this: C:\cygwin\bin\mintty.exe -o BackgroundColour=128,0,0 /bin/ssh server See the mintty manual for further information. The xterm documentation at http://invisible-island.net/xterm/ctlseqs/ctlseqs.html has the full details of those control sequences (look for "Operating System Controls"). Andy -- 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
