On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > 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
Thanks. > For example, to set the background > colour to dark red: > > echo $'\e]12;64,0,0\a' Err. Well that set my block cursor to dark red, but anyway, yeah, I get the idea. I will read the xterm doc you linked to and "play around". Oh. Is it because $ echo $TERM xterm-256color (Oh God. I just looked at the document you linked to. I'm not sure which is denser, me or it! Anyway, I will read and see what I can make of it.) Incidentally, do you prefer mintty related subjects here or in mintty-discuss? Both seem appropriate. -- 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
