Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

2012-04-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:32, Andrew DeFaria <> wrote: > As with most problems, properly defining the problem clearly is usually the > first step to finding the solution. From what I read you were using mintty > (it's amazing how many people run things yet don't have a clue what program > they are

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

2012-04-22 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 04/21/2012 03:50 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 18:40, Andrew DeFaria<> wrote: It doesn't matter what $TERM says. It matters what terminal emulator you are running. If mintty then follow the suggestion above... Is there a general xterm configuration for overriding a specifi

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

2012-04-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 18:40, Andrew DeFaria <> wrote: > It doesn't matter what $TERM says. It matters what terminal emulator > you are running. If mintty then follow the suggestion above... > >> Is there a general xterm configuration for overriding a specific >> colour? A few minutes on google di

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

2012-04-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
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 over SSH (VIM). I would i

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

2012-04-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 15:10, Andy Koppe <> wrote: > Assuming you're using Cygwin's default terminal, stick this into ~/.minttyrc: > > Blue=0,0,191 > > And in case you want to change bold blue as well: > > BoldBlue=64,64,255 > > Adjust the RGB values as desired. The values shown are the default on

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

2012-04-20 Thread Andrew DeFaria
On 4/20/2012 11:05 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 13:34, Larry Hall wrote: If you're using mintty, edit ~/.minttyrc or change directly through the "Options" dialog in the System menu. If you're using cmd.exe (you should update), change the colors through the "Properties" and "De

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

2012-04-20 Thread Andy Koppe
On 20 April 2012 18:26, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Hello all, I am a new Cygwin user. I have been looking online for a > way to change the default ANSI BLUE to CYAN, as it is very difficult > to see on the black terminal background. However, all I have been able > to find were suggestions to use Putty's

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

2012-04-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 13:34, Larry Hall wrote: > If you're using mintty, edit ~/.minttyrc or change directly through the > "Options" dialog in the System menu.  If you're using cmd.exe (you should > update), change the colors through the "Properties" and "Default" dialogs > in the System menu. >

Re: Change dark blue terminal colour

2012-04-20 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/20/2012 1:26 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Hello all, I am a new Cygwin user. I have been looking online for a way to change the default ANSI BLUE to CYAN, as it is very difficult to see on the black terminal background. However, all I have been able to find were suggestions to use Putty's terminal

Change dark blue terminal colour

2012-04-20 Thread Dotan Cohen
Hello all, I am a new Cygwin user. I have been looking online for a way to change the default ANSI BLUE to CYAN, as it is very difficult to see on the black terminal background. However, all I have been able to find were suggestions to use Putty's terminal or Console 2 instead of Cygwin's terminal.