Gary wrote: >> 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.
Oops. 12 indeed is the cursor. 11 is background, 10 is foreground. And the OSC 4 sequence lets you change all 256 colours, whereby the colour number appears after the first semicolon, e.g. this turns ANSI yellow (colour 3) up to full brightness: echo $'\e]4;3;255,255,0\a' >I will read the xterm doc you linked to and "play > around". Oh. Is it because > $ echo $TERM > xterm-256color No, the control sequences are available independent of the TERM setting. > (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. I don't really mind, since they both end up in my inbox anyway, but generally the more specific list is the better choice, initially anyway. I do prefer bug reports and enhancement requests to go straight to the mintty issue tracker, though. Good luck, 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
