I've managed to resolve this. I turned off color output in the cqlsh config file. It doesn't provide a way that I can see to configure the colors that are used, and black works perfectly fine for me.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:46 AM, James Darnley <james.darn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2016-09-15 22:47, David Karr wrote: >> 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)? > > Set Mintty's yellow colour to be something legible against your chosen > background colour. > > (Come to think of it, I should rebase my old GUI colour selection patch. > I probably should update Mintty anyway. But all that would require > effort.) > > P.S. Sorry about mailing you directly David. > -- 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
