Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen

Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen

[J. David Boyd]

I mean that I am running light grey characters on a black background (The
ms-dos prompt default in win98), and it is too hard on the eyes, with not
enough contrast.  I want to use a white background with black letters.

I'll look in the man page for bash again, I must have missed it before.

Thanks for the info!

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Reid Thompson" <jreidthompson@yahoo.com>
To: "J. David Boyd" <dave@tsc-corp.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen


> A man on bash will give information re the PS prompts
> -- when you say you wish to change the color of your
> env,, how do you mean?
>
> reid
> --- "J. David Boyd" <dave@tsc-corp.com> wrote:
> > How about a clue as to what I need to read to
> > decipher what the different items in PS1 do?
> >
> > I would like to change the color of my cygwin
> > environment, and I'm presuming that this is where I
> > would do it...
> >
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Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen

[Bjoern Kahl AG Resy]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, J. David Boyd wrote:

 Hallo !

> I mean that I am running light grey characters on a black background (The
> ms-dos prompt default in win98), and it is too hard on the eyes, with not
> enough contrast.  I want to use a white background with black letters.

 Well, I would prefer white on black, but thats OT
 
> I'll look in the man page for bash again, I must have missed it before.

 In the man for bash you may find how to set things like 
 hostname or username in PS. For the colors, IIRC you should
 read a description of the terminal. one example is the linux-
 manpage console_codes (section 4 I think).
 I dont have it here (so I may wrong) , but try looking for the
 mode-commands: "<CSI> some_magic_numbers <m>"

 Just tried it:
 echo -e "\033[34m test" gives a blue "test" , 33 gives yellow.


 Bjoern
 

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reid Thompson" <jreidthompson@yahoo.com>

> > A man on bash will give information re the PS prompts
> > -- when you say you wish to change the color of your
> > env,, how do you mean?

> > --- "J. David Boyd" <dave@tsc-corp.com> wrote:
> > > How about a clue as to what I need to read to
> > > decipher what the different items in PS1 do?

> > > I would like to change the color of my cygwin
> > > environment, and I'm presuming that this is where I
> > > would do it...


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Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen

[J. David Boyd]

Thanks, that's the info I was looking for.

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bjoern Kahl AG Resy" <kahl@informatik.uni-kl.de>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: "J. David Boyd" <dave@tsc-corp.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen


> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, J. David Boyd wrote:
>
>  Hallo !
>
> > I mean that I am running light grey characters on a black background
(The
> > ms-dos prompt default in win98), and it is too hard on the eyes, with
not
> > enough contrast.  I want to use a white background with black letters.
>
>  Well, I would prefer white on black, but thats OT
>
> > I'll look in the man page for bash again, I must have missed it before.
>
>  In the man for bash you may find how to set things like
>  hostname or username in PS. For the colors, IIRC you should
>  read a description of the terminal. one example is the linux-
>  manpage console_codes (section 4 I think).
>  I dont have it here (so I may wrong) , but try looking for the
>  mode-commands: "<CSI> some_magic_numbers <m>"
>
>  Just tried it:
>  echo -e "\033[34m test" gives a blue "test" , 33 gives yellow.
>
>
>  Bjoern
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Reid Thompson" <jreidthompson@yahoo.com>
>
> > > A man on bash will give information re the PS prompts
> > > -- when you say you wish to change the color of your
> > > env,, how do you mean?
>
> > > --- "J. David Boyd" <dave@tsc-corp.com> wrote:
> > > > How about a clue as to what I need to read to
> > > > decipher what the different items in PS1 do?
>
> > > > I would like to change the color of my cygwin
> > > > environment, and I'm presuming that this is where I
> > > > would do it...
>
>
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Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen

[Earnie Boyd]

--- "J. David Boyd" <dave@tsc-corp.com> wrote:
> I mean that I am running light grey characters on a black background (The
> ms-dos prompt default in win98), and it is too hard on the eyes, with not
> enough contrast.  I want to use a white background with black letters.
> 
> I'll look in the man page for bash again, I must have missed it before.
> 
> Thanks for the info!
> 

Right mouse click on the Cygwin icon on your desktop.  Choose properties. 
Select the colors tab.  Change the colors.  Save the changes.  Double click the
Cygwin Icon.

Cheers,

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Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen

[J. David Boyd]

You all must be running on NT, because Win9x has no Color tab.  I wish it
did!

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "J. David Boyd" <dave@tsc-corp.com>; "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen


>
> --- "J. David Boyd" <dave@tsc-corp.com> wrote:
> > I mean that I am running light grey characters on a black background
(The
> > ms-dos prompt default in win98), and it is too hard on the eyes, with
not
> > enough contrast.  I want to use a white background with black letters.
> >
> > I'll look in the man page for bash again, I must have missed it before.
> >
> > Thanks for the info!
> >
>
> Right mouse click on the Cygwin icon on your desktop.  Choose properties.
> Select the colors tab.  Change the colors.  Save the changes.  Double
click the
> Cygwin Icon.
>
> Cheers,
>
> =====
> Earnie Boyd
> mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
>
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Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen

[Henry Smith]

At 11:27 AM 12/20/2000 -0500, J. David Boyd wrote:
>You all must be running on NT, because Win9x has no Color tab.  I wish it
>did!

Good reason to switch! <G> Sorry couldn't resist.....

Had the same problem before going to 2K, so I can feel for you.

There are some replacements for the OOTB COMMAND.COM. Don't recall them 
myself (maybe something like cmd95.exe???) but a search of the archives of 
this list should find it for you. IIRC I had some problems with W95 and 
these things but it was some time back and I guess they are improved some 
at least I hope so.

HTH

Cheers

Henry


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Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen

[Tom Weichmann]

On Wednesday December 20 2000 10:55 am, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> --- "J. David Boyd" <dave@tsc-corp.com> wrote:
> > I mean that I am running light grey characters on a black background (The
> > ms-dos prompt default in win98), and it is too hard on the eyes, with not
> > enough contrast.  I want to use a white background with black letters.
> >
> > I'll look in the man page for bash again, I must have missed it before.
> >
> > Thanks for the info!
>
> Right mouse click on the Cygwin icon on your desktop.  Choose properties.
> Select the colors tab.  Change the colors.  Save the changes.  Double click
> the Cygwin Icon.

Only on NT!!! 9X does not support this!!


>
> Cheers,
>
> =====
> Earnie Boyd
> mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
>
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PS1 and color of cygwin screen

[J. David Boyd]

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How about a clue as to what I need to read to decipher what 
the different items in PS1 do?
 
I would like to change the color of my cygwin environment, and 
I'm presuming that this is where I would do it...
 
Dave
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Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen

[Henry Smith]

At 08:18 AM 12/20/2000 -0500, J. David Boyd wrote:
>How about a clue as to what I need to read to decipher what the different 
>items in PS1 do?
>
>I would like to change the color of my cygwin environment, and I'm 
>presuming that this is where I would do it...
>

Hi,

Here's what I do. Just open the properties of the CMD.EXE box that opens 
when you click on the cygwin icon. (Right click the little icon on the top 
left.) You can change a number of properties like background and text 
colors. It does stay associated with the icon although you might have to 
select an option to get this to happen, don't recall right now. It does 
work rather nicely for me so I suspect it will for you. Oh, I just realized 
that this is for NT/2K so if you are using 9X/ME then you will have to use 
one of the other options for the command shell besides COMMAND.EXE  - don't 
recall which they are right now but a check of the archives should tell you.

HTH

Cheers

Henry


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