> I've been happily using rxvt for a while using, what I understood to be, the > out-of-the-box background and foreground color settings (dark blue and yellow > respectively). > > After I installed a recent update using cygwin setup (obtaining rxvt v2.7.10) > I get a white background and a black foreground (text). > > How can I get the original colors back ? > > I've tried the rxvt -background and -foreground options but can't seem to > reproduce the original colors. > > Incidentally, on the upgrade, the value of the COLORFGBG environment variable > changed from "default;default" to "0;default;15"
The rxvt package for cygwin itself hasn't been changed since 2007 Aug 27, so I doubt anything related to rxvt itself changed. However, I ran into a similar problem with rxvt -- but it was due to the recent X11 updates. Now, granted, rxvt has a native mode in which it doesn't depend on X11. However, there is the following bug: rxvt looks for its resource file in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt (also ~/.Xdefaults, etc). It does not use X11 to do this; instead it locates and parses the files manually. However, the cygwin rxvt package installs the Rxvt resource file into /etc/X11/app-defaults/. The old X11 packages created/maintained a symbolic link /usr/lib/X11/app-resources -> /etc/X11/app-resources The new ones do not, and that symbolic link is gone; I'm not sure if that is a bug in the new X11 packages, or a deliberate change. I will eventually rebuild (the cygwin "native") rxvt to look in the correct /etc/ location, but until then, manually create the symlink: $ cd /usr/lib/X11 $ ln -fs /etc/X11/app-resources . And you should be fine. Also, I've noticed a similar issue with rxvt-unicode-X: unfortunately the symlink trick doesn't work for it. I had to set XAPPLRESDIR=/etc/X11/app-defaults in my system environment for rxvt-unicode-X to be happy. -- Chuck P.S. -bg and -fg WJFFM (/not/ -background or -foreground) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
