Greetings, David Karr! > When I run mintty, the background is white, and normal text is black. > This is fine. However, there are some applications that are > displaying text in other colors, many of which are fine, but some apps > display some text in yellow, which on a white background is almost > unreadable.
> For instance, the display from Cassandra's "cqlsh" shows the results > of queries in black, purple (probably not quite right), and yellow. > The worst part is, it's using yellow for the column values. > Is there any way to control this, in general (obviously, not just for > cqlsh output)? Piping results through some other program usually cause origin program to not install color codes. For a more specific solutions, look into each program's documentation. -- With best regards, Andrey Repin Thursday, September 15, 2016 23:57:56 Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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