On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 11:49 PM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > Hi, your symptom description is quite sparse... > > Am 21.05.2017 um 22:45 schrieb Sky Diver: >> >> Lately I noticed that colors are not showing by default in some >> situations. >> The most apparent case is when running composer. > > What "composer"? PHP composer https://getcomposer.org
>> The latest composer version on "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" console, >> and even when running it via a mintty shell looks just fine. But from >> cygwin the output is monochrome. > > "From cygwin" could mean (guessing) from a cygwin console window, where your > TERM setting would be "cygwin". > That could cause an application to assume no colour support. So it would > help if you tell us what your settings are. (*) I thought that cygcheck.out would answer these type of questions. The default TERM value is 'xterm', even when I rename my home-dir and launch a shell that creates a fresh one. >> I would love to understand what's going on. >> I tried the following: >> - Change the TERM var to several values > > Which values? TERM=xterm TERM=xterm-256color TERM=Cygwin TERM=cygwin This one also didn't help: export CYGWIN=codepage:ansi -- 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
