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From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: "J. David Boyd" <dave@tsc-corp.com>, Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:55:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001220155522.18849.qmail@web110.yahoomail.com> (raw)

--- "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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             reply	other threads:[~2000-12-20  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-12-20  7:55 Earnie Boyd [this message]
2000-12-20  8:26 ` J. David Boyd
2000-12-20  8:43   ` Henry Smith
2000-12-20 11:20 ` Tom Weichmann
     [not found] <20001220143842.10575.qmail@web9601.mail.yahoo.com>
2000-12-20  6:52 ` J. David Boyd
2000-12-20  7:15   ` Bjoern Kahl AG Resy
2000-12-20  7:43     ` J. David Boyd
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-20  5:17 J. David Boyd
2000-12-20  6:11 ` Henry Smith

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