On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Saurabh T <...> wrote: > > Hi, > > For various reasons, I cannot switch to rxvt or similar, and am stuck > using the cygwin bash shell (which runs on top of the dos cmd window). > > Here, the background color defaults to black and foreground to light. > I reversed this using the dos window -> Properties -> Colors. > > However the bold color does not change. This causes for example man pages > to be displayed badly (light text on light background). > > Is there anything that can be done to change the bold color? I searched > on this mailing list and found just one similar question from 10 years > ago which was unanswered: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01512.html > > Hopefully someone can help. Thank you. > > saurabh >
This doesn't address your issue directly but did you try mintty from the cygwin repos? That's the current default terminal. -- 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
