Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

would have directly addressed the issue you were having. > Thank you. I am still not sure how to tell which terminal one is using. How does one tell if $TERM is not the place? You are right, had I known that then many bits could have been spared transversing the intercords. &

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

ight place in the manual to look then it will save me further questions and possibly help me solve related issues in the future. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.c

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 18:41, Dotan Cohen <> wrote: > Thank you Andy. So far as I know I am using the default terminal, but > putting those lines in the file specified did not help. I did close > the Cygwin terminal and reopen it. > > Note that the blue text is being sent ov

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

would imagine that for a terminal setting it should not matter from where the text was sent, but I mention it if it is important. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

"Default" dialogs > in the System menu. > Thanks. The $TERM variable says that it is xterm. In the terminal's context menu there is no options for overriding specifc colours, like Putty has. Is there a general xterm configuration for overriding a specific colour? A few minut

Change dark blue terminal colour

s terminal. Is there no way to make this change in Cygwin's terminal? A simple .bashrc .vimrc or .dir_colors change is not appropriate as I often SSH into many other machines, not all of which I can play with the bash or VIM colours. Thank you. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://w