From: James Darnley <james.darnley@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2c0d6fe2-a89c-7169-506a-937693b5aae4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA5t8VoO0AEJ1in1pf+iZc6yKyfDSdKZjt-gNYkMMKtjf9-6xA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2016-09-15 22:47, David Karr wrote:
> When I run mintty, the background is white, and normal text is black.
> This is fine. However, there are some applications that are
> displaying text in other colors, many of which are fine, but some apps
> display some text in yellow, which on a white background is almost
> unreadable.
>
> For instance, the display from Cassandra's "cqlsh" shows the results
> of queries in black, purple (probably not quite right), and yellow.
> The worst part is, it's using yellow for the column values.
>
> Is there any way to control this, in general (obviously, not just for
> cqlsh output)?
Set Mintty's yellow colour to be something legible against your chosen
background colour.
(Come to think of it, I should rebase my old GUI colour selection patch.
I probably should update Mintty anyway. But all that would require
effort.)
P.S. Sorry about mailing you directly David.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-16 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-15 21:04 David Karr
2016-09-15 21:07 ` Andrey Repin
2016-09-16 13:21 ` Brian Inglis
2016-09-16 13:48 ` James Darnley [this message]
2016-09-16 15:48 ` David Karr
2016-09-16 20:52 ` Thomas Wolff
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