Ken Brown writes: > 1. I edited .minttyrc to set > BackgroundColour=#F8F8F8. (ForegroundColour is 0,0,0, which I guess is > the default.)
OK. > 2. I ran 'emacs-nox -Q'. The background color didn't visibly change; > it's still off-white. The mode line and menu line appear to be > reversed (black background, off-white foreground, though I can't > really be sure that the foreground is off-white rather than white). I think the background gets set to "white" by my .emacs (or rather the part that customize-options saved). > 3. I evaluated (set-background-color "white"). This caused the > background to turn gray. The mode line and menu bar didn't visibly > change. That's the main problem and I can't figure out why it associates white with anything that doesn't have all the bits set in the RGB colorspec. > 4. I evaluated (set-background-color "#F8F8F8"). The background > stayed gray. That's most likely a result of your terminal not being recognized as being able to use 256 colors. > I need to investigate 3 and 4, but first I'd like to understand why > you and I are seeing different things. One difference is the value of > TERM. You say "mintty reports itself as xterm-256color". Do you mean > it does this by default, or do you have something in your startup > files that causes this? When I start mintty, I get the following: That's an option you can set in mintty or just change the TERM variable before you start emacs. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ Factory and User Sound Singles for Waldorf rackAttack: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#WaldorfSounds -- 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
