From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 76075 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2016 13:46:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 76042 invoked by uid 89); 16 Sep 2016 13:46:20 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=purple, mintty, foreground, yellow X-HELO: mail-wm0-f43.google.com Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-wm0-f43.google.com) (74.125.82.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:46:18 +0000 Received: by mail-wm0-f43.google.com with SMTP id l132so38805842wmf.0 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 06:46:17 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:subject:to:references:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to; bh=zKYz2ozEfvNyhN/bqVIVE9qk6OCxNrA2nXrat3KgV5Q=; b=KiC0qTSsTHbMDBU5Pm3fj855cQ6dyQqzHoCEA7QRzqdKERujLWSq6yuSTOjsuJ00B1 U/ovq/qZvrBFbYwBhWKpfBt15zw4AkK8Z95IAytzQhSihb00jrC3GCccYgTaeptpi48C nB/mDaUgRK1HI1t6RbiBxlAZ9WPsGOn4nyXdn8klHyf/jBv7bVIaMtE4L/XwZ8z5SKql mh/DnNNZ09G9oko7igw1u1TOHZYL0Y2Re0mUeYzQDeLs+DOmWZLNpvTL7UZONUm6iWfR rlewcsr1lNeZCjQpuLwOm9MSXB4VRekI/shkOUPyU/U9TOhBlX409UQdGnW0M4UbC7ZJ IW4w== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwPi0JxHlhqSfutfA8ZvS5cKXWlIzjS7terx4wbY8EqeMMbJg4+GMQsFz/d3bkycwA== X-Received: by 10.28.87.212 with SMTP id l203mr6200837wmb.71.1474033575996; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 06:46:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.111] (d51A44418.access.telenet.be. [81.164.68.24]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id bj8sm8448619wjc.49.2016.09.16.06.46.14 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 16 Sep 2016 06:46:14 -0700 (PDT) From: James Darnley Subject: Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Message-ID: <2c0d6fe2-a89c-7169-506a-937693b5aae4@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:48:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7aX34Pp1PtdPeOD48SHlLWTtVCAqPsBnx" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00225.txt.bz2 --7aX34Pp1PtdPeOD48SHlLWTtVCAqPsBnx Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="86M64afagSML1ahXB3wQAvs9AQclGL4of"; protected-headers="v1" From: James Darnley To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <2c0d6fe2-a89c-7169-506a-937693b5aae4@gmail.com> Subject: Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color References: In-Reply-To: --86M64afagSML1ahXB3wQAvs9AQclGL4of Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 923 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. --86M64afagSML1ahXB3wQAvs9AQclGL4of-- --7aX34Pp1PtdPeOD48SHlLWTtVCAqPsBnx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-length: 603 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJX2/eeXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ1NjEyRjRFOTUzQTZBREExMEU5QjI4NUFD QzI2REQxMDk5NDEyOTA4AAoJEMwm3RCZQSkImAwH/R6VuARJXfkQCafVWltE15XG NcSFLg09sXVBQSufAhxImGRQ1C8Rxo5URH23elWwcS2+GbViZK2It7zRrzxdVzpL zb7WtvQDLNXy1TXUnVTlEKcBbEDBfqNAdFeSiL0vKuiFVE7/psR9xNE79Ju7pCw7 AKpkVzfZs1nYoAEvIdbDzxYp/EZldzKocFQFxU1lP2tvromDiMarpzS/UvqDdoKv SDb9quvaQZb82QXVfc3moHFOQnD0n/4tgFHb59WVRysBtTAC3N3NJlriidT7hjTh 5iCVFR6WkUgCpmZ3N7o8w+UP85BEcCBGbSM8TXEevShCXG0ne0sShqEhbFoJAoY= =eMWQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7aX34Pp1PtdPeOD48SHlLWTtVCAqPsBnx--