* SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...
@ 2001-01-25 7:34 Dan Littley
2001-01-25 8:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2001-01-25 8:40 ` Earnie Boyd
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From: Dan Littley @ 2001-01-25 7:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
Hi,
I have recently installed Cygwin mainly to use Mutt as
a mail client.
I have set everything up and all works fine.
I want to SSH into Cygwin (localhost) with PUTTY, and use Mutt from there.
I have installed/setup SSH and I can SSH to localhost fine. But everything looks crap! The bash prompt looks like this:
No passphrase required.
\[\033]0;\w\007
\033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
$
and mutt is all in black and white.
I assume this has something to do with the terminal type/settings.
Any help much appreciated.
Cheers - Dan Littley
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* Re: SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...
2001-01-25 7:34 SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs Dan Littley
@ 2001-01-25 8:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2001-01-25 8:42 ` Dan Littley
2001-01-25 8:40 ` Earnie Boyd
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From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2001-01-25 8:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:31:14PM +0000, Dan Littley wrote:
> I have installed/setup SSH and I can SSH to localhost fine. But everything looks crap! The bash prompt looks like this:
>
>
> No passphrase required.
> \[\033]0;\w\007
> \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> $
Your /etc/passwd contains /bin/sh as login shell.
/bin/sh is "ash", not "bash". So you will have to
change your /etc/passwd entry to contain /bin/bash
as login shell.
> and mutt is all in black and white.
Isn't PUTTY an vt100+ emu? Try setting TERM to vt100 or
similar.
Corinna
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* Re: SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...
2001-01-25 8:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
@ 2001-01-25 8:42 ` Dan Littley
2001-01-25 10:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
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From: Dan Littley @ 2001-01-25 8:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 05:28:16PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 03:31:14PM +0000, Dan Littley wrote:
> > I have installed/setup SSH and I can SSH to localhost fine. But everything looks crap! The bash prompt looks like this:
> >
> >
> > No passphrase required.
> > \[\033]0;\w\007
> > \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> > $
>
> Your /etc/passwd contains /bin/sh as login shell.
> /bin/sh is "ash", not "bash". So you will have to
> change your /etc/passwd entry to contain /bin/bash
> as login shell.
>
Thanks, that fixed the prompt issue.
> > and mutt is all in black and white.
>
> Isn't PUTTY an vt100+ emu? Try setting TERM to vt100 or
> similar.
>
Mutt is still in black and white. It is in colour when using Cygwin itself
but remains black and white when run in a SSH session with Putty. Putty is
set to xterm and I tried setting Cygwin to xterm using "export TERM=xterm".
I also tried vt100. Any other ideas?
NB. after running mutt in SSH, it is also black and white is subsequent mutt
sessions back in Cygwin, until I close/restart Cygwin.
Thanks - Dan
> Corinna
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* Re: SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...
2001-01-25 8:42 ` Dan Littley
@ 2001-01-25 10:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
2001-01-26 1:09 ` Dan Littley
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From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2001-01-25 10:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: cygwin
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:40:00PM +0000, Dan Littley wrote:
> Mutt is still in black and white. It is in colour when using Cygwin itself
> but remains black and white when run in a SSH session with Putty. Putty is
> set to xterm and I tried setting Cygwin to xterm using "export TERM=xterm".
>
> I also tried vt100. Any other ideas?
Try TERM=linux.
Corinna
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* Re: SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...
2001-01-25 10:24 ` Corinna Vinschen
@ 2001-01-26 1:09 ` Dan Littley
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From: Dan Littley @ 2001-01-26 1:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Corinna Vinschen
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 07:23:55PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 04:40:00PM +0000, Dan Littley wrote:
> > Mutt is still in black and white. It is in colour when using Cygwin itself
> > but remains black and white when run in a SSH session with Putty. Putty is
> > set to xterm and I tried setting Cygwin to xterm using "export TERM=xterm".
> >
> > I also tried vt100. Any other ideas?
>
> Try TERM=linux.
>
Cool, that worked for the colours fine! :)
Finally, how do you get things more spread out? All the messages
are left aligned, and the status bar only goes half way across.
How to I spread it out to the extents of my Putty window?
Thanks - Dan
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* Re: SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs...
2001-01-25 7:34 SSH with PUTTY to Cygwin display probs Dan Littley
2001-01-25 8:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
@ 2001-01-25 8:40 ` Earnie Boyd
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From: Earnie Boyd @ 2001-01-25 8:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dan Littley; +Cc: cygwin
Dan Littley wrote:
>
>
> No passphrase required.
> \[\033]0;\w\007
> \033[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\]
> $
>
This is what the prompt looks like when you use sh as your shell. Your
/etc/passwd file says you want /bin/sh as your shell. Change this to
/bin/bash for your shell if you want pretty colored prompts. Change PS1
setting /etc/profile if you want to change the prompt value.
Earnie.
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