Re: Cygwin console: Different default background color when terminal runs as Admin?

2023-08-18 Thread Christian Franke via Cygwin
Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: On Aug 18 11:51, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 7:27 AM Jonathon Merz via Cygwin wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:13 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: Just an idea: Could the default background color of the Cygwin console be changed f

Re: Cygwin console: Different default background color when terminal runs as Admin?

2023-08-18 Thread Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
On Aug 18 11:51, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 7:27 AM Jonathon Merz via Cygwin > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:13 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin > > wrote: > > > > > Just an idea: Could the default background color of the Cygwin console > > > be changed from black

Re: Cygwin console: Different default background color when terminal runs as Admin?

2023-08-18 Thread Thomas Wolff via Cygwin
Am 18.08.2023 um 10:11 schrieb Christian Franke via Cygwin: Jonathon Merz via Cygwin wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:13 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: Just an idea: Could the default background color of the Cygwin console be changed from black to grey (or RED) if the terminal has been s

Re: Cygwin console: Different default background color when terminal runs as Admin?

2023-08-18 Thread Martin Wege via Cygwin
On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 7:27 AM Jonathon Merz via Cygwin wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:13 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin > wrote: > > > Just an idea: Could the default background color of the Cygwin console > > be changed from black to grey (or RED) if the terminal has been > > started with Adm

Re: Cygwin console: Different default background color when terminal runs as Admin?

2023-08-18 Thread Christian Franke via Cygwin
Jonathon Merz via Cygwin wrote: On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:13 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: Just an idea: Could the default background color of the Cygwin console be changed from black to grey (or RED) if the terminal has been started with Administrator rights? Assuming that: 1. The Admini

Re: Cygwin console: Different default background color when terminal runs as Admin?

2023-08-17 Thread Jonathon Merz via Cygwin
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 7:13 PM Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote: > Just an idea: Could the default background color of the Cygwin console > be changed from black to grey (or RED) if the terminal has been > started with Administrator rights? > Assuming that: 1. The Administrators group is called "Ad

Re: cygwin console software

2017-03-07 Thread Keith Christian
Until a few months ago, I used PuttyCyg. It worked really well, and still does, and I used it for perhaps 10 years. In the past few months, I've been using Tera Term, which has a Cygwin mode that works just like MinTTY and PuttyCyg with the few differences I've noticed: 1PuttyCyg and oth

Re: cygwin console software

2017-02-26 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2017-02-27, Goodman Leung wrote: > Hi list > > Minty is go hard to copy , > > Is there any other console software for Cygwin ? Do you mean that it is hard to copy and paste text to and from mintty? I have no trouble at all using it. I don't think there is anything better--or as good--for Cy

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-10 Thread Igor Bujna
Charles Wilson wrote: > Please keep replies on the list. > > Igor Bujna wrote: > >> Charles Wilson wrote: >> >>> Try installing this font: Lucida ConsoleP from >>> http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/bashprompt/ >>> >>> >>> It is Lucida Console, reencoded to put the

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Please keep replies on the list. Igor Bujna wrote: > Charles Wilson wrote: > >> Try installing this font: Lucida ConsoleP from >> http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/bashprompt/ >> >> >> It is Lucida Console, reencoded to put the linedraw chars where >> codepage:o

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-09 Thread Charles Wilson
Try installing this font: Lucida ConsoleP from http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/unversioned/bashprompt/ It is Lucida Console, reencoded to put the linedraw chars where codepage:oem expects them. Then, start rxvt as: rxvt -fn "Lucida ConsoleP-14" . (also, you may need t

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-09 Thread Igor Bujna
avel Tsekov wrote: > > > Igor Bujna wrote: > >> Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> >>> Kent, >>> >>> 2002-01-08 18:12:54, du schriebst: >>> > To get it work for me, I had to include the path to bash > rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i > >>> > probably because I don't have the cygwin paths in my

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-09 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Oooops! Sorry, for the wrong info - seems I'm more stupid than usual today :( egor duda wrote: > Hi! > > Wednesday, 09 January, 2002 Pavel Tsekov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>>its very good. Bad i have some program with ncurses. On the screen i >>>see the box() function in curses creates a

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-09 Thread egor duda
Hi! Wednesday, 09 January, 2002 Pavel Tsekov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> its very good. Bad i have some program with ncurses. On the screen i >> see the box() function in curses creates an ugly looking box, where the >> extended characters drawing the box (ACS_VLINE, ACS_HLINE) are replaced >

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-09 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Igor Bujna wrote: > Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > >> Kent, >> >> 2002-01-08 18:12:54, du schriebst: >> To get it work for me, I had to include the path to bash rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i >> probably because I don't have the cygwin paths in my windows PATH. Once bash start

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-09 Thread Igor Bujna
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Kent, > > 2002-01-08 18:12:54, du schriebst: > >>> To get it work for me, I had to include the path to bash >>> rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i >>> > >>> probably because I don't have the cygwin paths in my windows PATH. >>> Once bash starts with --login it reads the /etc/pr

RE: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf > Of Warren Young > > John Peacock wrote: > > > > p.s. and I guess your color scheme isn't so awful; typically you > never want to > > have red and blue of the same intensity next to each other, since the

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Warren Young
John Peacock wrote: > > p.s. and I guess your color scheme isn't so awful; typically you never want to > have red and blue of the same intensity next to each other, since the same > cones in your eyes perceive both colors and you can sometimes get the phantom > movement I wear glasses that disto

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Joachim Walter
Maybe we were all distracted by the many colors in the line ;-) Joachim Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > Kent, > > 2002-01-08 18:12:54, du schriebst: > > >>>To get it work for me, I had to include the path to bash >>>rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i >>> > >>>probably because I don't have the cygwin p

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Matthew Smith
Another thing we could think about is to simply make a second shortcut to rxvt. I normally have both a shortcut to rxvt and the cygwin console, as each works well for certain tasks. For instance, cvs updates seem to work better for me from a cygwin console for some reason. cheers, -Matt Smith

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Kent, 2002-01-08 18:12:54, du schriebst: >> To get it work for me, I had to include the path to bash >> rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i >> probably because I don't have the cygwin paths in my windows PATH. >> Once bash starts with --login it reads the /etc/profile and everything >> is ok. > din

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Kent Perrier wrote: > On 1/8/2002 10:26 AM, Joachim Walter wrote: > >> To get it work for me, I had to include the path to bash >> >> rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i >> >> probably because I don't have the cygwin paths in my windows PATH. >> Once bash starts with --login it reads the /etc/profile

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Kent Perrier wrote: > >> add '-display :0' to your rxvt command line. > > > Well, I am saddened to report that this does not fix the issue. I was afraid of that. Can you add C:\cygwin\bin to your PATH in autoexec.bat, reboot, and try again? [just an experiment; I'm not advocating that set

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Kent Perrier
On 1/8/2002 10:26 AM, Joachim Walter wrote: > To get it work for me, I had to include the path to bash > > rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i > > probably because I don't have the cygwin paths in my windows PATH. > Once bash starts with --login it reads the /etc/profile and everything > is ok. din

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Kent Perrier
On 1/8/2002 10:22 AM, Charles Wilson wrote: > Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > >>> Humm. I comment out the bash line and I add the rxvt line and I get >>> the "guick flash." I do have rxvt installed, so what have I done wrong? >>> >> >> Windows98? >> >> What happens if you just double click rxvt.e

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Charles, 2002-01-08 17:25:13, du schriebst: > But people REALLY get annoyed if you mess with their autoexec, so there > IS another option: > add '-display :0' to your rxvt command line. Hmm, I noticed I was wrong in a prior posting, if I double-click rxvt.exe from Explorer there is DISPLAY=:

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Joachim Walter
To get it work for me, I had to include the path to bash rxvt -e /bin/bash --login -i probably because I don't have the cygwin paths in my windows PATH. Once bash starts with --login it reads the /etc/profile and everything is ok. Joachim Kent Perrier wrote: > On 1/8/2002 9:55 AM, John Peac

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
No personal cygwin email, please. On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:45:00PM +0530, Kiran Prakash wrote: >>>cygwin's pty emulation doesnt even work with some cygwin apps >>>(for example talk, the message telling the user about the talk is >>>swallowed) >> >>Uh. Yeah. Right. Swallowed. Sure. >> >>cg

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Charles Wilson
Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >>Humm. I comment out the bash line and I add the rxvt line and I get the >>"guick flash." I do have rxvt installed, so what have I done wrong? >> > > Windows98? > > What happens if you just double click rxvt.exe from explorer? > I get a whit shell with black font scr

Re: Starting bash within rxvt [WAS: Re: cygwin console]

2002-01-08 Thread Earnie Boyd
start rxvt -fg -bg -sl -sr -fn -tn -e /bin/bash --login -i I typically do: start rxvt -fg black -bg white -sl 2500 -sr -fn Courier-12 -tn cygwin -e /bin/bash --login -i HTH, Earnie. P.S.: The -sr moves the vertical slidebar to the right of the window. ___

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:52:17AM -0500, John Peacock wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>The problem is that we'll be switching the "I need a scrollbar!"s with >>the "Where is the output from ?". >> >>cygwin's pty emulation does not work with every windows application. I >>don't think we should

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Kent Perrier
On 1/8/2002 9:55 AM, John Peacock wrote: > start from a simple base: > > rxvt -e bash --login -i > > and see if that works, then add in the other options. What I posted is exactly > what I am running (with W2k SP1) so there must be something else going on. Are > you sure you don't have any st

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:29:09PM +0530, Kiran Prakash wrote: >On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:39:39 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> cygwin's pty emulation does not work with every windows application. I >> don't think we should default to using rxvt for this reason. > >cygwin's pty emulation doesnt e

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Kiran Prakash
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 10:39:39 -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > cygwin's pty emulation does not work with every windows application. I > don't think we should default to using rxvt for this reason. cygwin's pty emulation doesnt even work with some cygwin apps (for example talk, the message tellin

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread John Peacock
Kent Perrier wrote: > > Here is my current cygwin.bat > > C:\cygwin>type cygwin.bat > @echo off > > C: > chdir \cygwin\bin > > rem bash --login -i > rxvt -sr -sl 2500 -sb -e bash --login -i > start from a simple base: rxvt -e bash --login -i and see if that works, then add in the other o

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread John Peacock
Christopher Faylor wrote: > > The problem is that we'll be switching the "I need a scrollbar!"s with > the "Where is the output from ?". > > cygwin's pty emulation does not work with every windows application. I > don't think we should default to using rxvt for this reason. I was not aware of

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
John, 2002-01-08 16:30:56, du schriebst: > p.s. and I guess your color scheme isn't so awful; typically you never want to > have red and blue of the same intensity next to each other, since the same > cones in your eyes perceive both colors and you can sometimes get the phantom > movement So

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Kent Perrier
On 1/8/2002 9:20 AM, John Peacock wrote: > Kent Perrier wrote: > >>Humm. I comment out the bash line and I add the rxvt line and I get the >>"guick flash." I do have rxvt installed, so what have I done wrong? >> > > Restore the bash line, then run the rxvt line from within the CMD window and

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 11:45:53AM +, David Starks-Browning wrote: >On Tuesday 8 Jan 02, Gerrit P. Haase writes: >> David, >> >> 2002-01-08 12:22:14, du schriebst: >> >> > It probably is worth adding something to the FAQ about this. >> >> I think `rxvt' should be the default shell for Cygw

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread John Peacock
"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > > Yes, but I'm sure it needs some discussion. Isn't that what we are doing here? ;~) > I would like to have it a blue background and a red cursor;) Pervert! ;~! > > > but since this file is, I believe, originally created by the CygWin installer, > > the change n

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Kent, 2002-01-08 16:13:28, du schriebst: >>> --- cygwin.bat.orig Tue Jan 8 09:15:22 2002 >>> +++ cygwin.bat Tue Jan 8 09:20:22 2002 >>> @@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ >>> D: >>> chdir \cygwin\bin >>> >>> -bash --login -i >>> +start rxvt -sl 300 -e bash --login -i > Humm. I comment out the bash li

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
John, 2002-01-08 15:43:01, du schriebst: >>> I think `rxvt' should be the default shell for Cygwin after a >>> fresh setup. At least for Win98 users. >> I fully agree, but who is going to do the work? > The change is truly trivial: Yes, but I'm sure it needs some discussion. To satisfy eve

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread John Peacock
Kent Perrier wrote: > > Humm. I comment out the bash line and I add the rxvt line and I get the > "guick flash." I do have rxvt installed, so what have I done wrong? Restore the bash line, then run the rxvt line from within the CMD window and see what error messages you get (leave off the 'sta

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Heyho, Kent :) Kent Perrier wrote: > On 1/8/2002 8:51 AM, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > >>> >>> --- cygwin.bat.orig Tue Jan 8 09:15:22 2002 >>> +++ cygwin.bat Tue Jan 8 09:20:22 2002 >>> @@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ >>> D: >>> chdir \cygwin\bin >>> >>> -bash --login -i >>> +start rxvt -sl 300 -e bash --l

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Kent Perrier
On 1/8/2002 8:51 AM, Pavel Tsekov wrote: >> >> --- cygwin.bat.orig Tue Jan 8 09:15:22 2002 >> +++ cygwin.bat Tue Jan 8 09:20:22 2002 >> @@ -3,4 +3,4 @@ >> D: >> chdir \cygwin\bin >> >> -bash --login -i >> +start rxvt -sl 300 -e bash --login -i > > > > > Well, this is fine as long a

RE: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Bernard Dautrevaux
> -Original Message- > From: John Peacock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 3:21 PM > To: David Starks-Browning > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: cygwin console > > > David Starks-Browning wrote: > > > > On T

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread John Peacock
Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > Well, this is fine as long as the rxvt package is installed :) Yes, rxvt would need to be added to the base install in the event that rxvt was chosen as the default console. I also think that there is no reason to ask whether anyone WANTS to use the lame CMD box; rxvt i

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Pavel Tsekov
Hey, John :) John Peacock wrote: > David Starks-Browning wrote: > >>On Tuesday 8 Jan 02, Gerrit P. Haase writes: >> >>>I think `rxvt' should be the default shell for Cygwin after a >>>fresh setup. At least for Win98 users. >>> >>I fully agree, but who is going to do the work? >> >> > > The ch

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread John Peacock
David Starks-Browning wrote: > > On Tuesday 8 Jan 02, Gerrit P. Haase writes: > > I think `rxvt' should be the default shell for Cygwin after a > > fresh setup. At least for Win98 users. > > I fully agree, but who is going to do the work? > The change is truly trivial: --- cygwin.bat.orig

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread David Starks-Browning
On Tuesday 8 Jan 02, Gerrit P. Haase writes: > David, > > 2002-01-08 12:22:14, du schriebst: > > > It probably is worth adding something to the FAQ about this. > > I think `rxvt' should be the default shell for Cygwin after a > fresh setup. At least for Win98 users. I fully agree, but who is

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
David, 2002-01-08 12:22:14, du schriebst: > It probably is worth adding something to the FAQ about this. I think `rxvt' should be the default shell for Cygwin after a fresh setup. At least for Win98 users. Just my 2 cent (EURO). Gerrit -- =^..^= -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.co

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread David Starks-Browning
It probably is worth adding something to the FAQ about this. Thanks, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) On Tuesday 8 Jan 02, Mark Himsley writes: > rxvt is probably what you are looking for. It is a stand-alone app and does > not require X to be installed. It has its own package so you may have to >

Re: cygwin console

2002-01-08 Thread Mark Himsley
rxvt is probably what you are looking for. It is a stand-alone app and does not require X to be installed. It has its own package so you may have to install it via setup.exe. Other alternatives are, for instance, installing sshd or inetd and using your favourite ssh/telnet client to connect to lo