mintty-colors: changing colors in mintty on the fly

mintty-colors: changing colors in mintty on the fly

[Joakim Karlsson]

As a weekend project, I put together mintty-colors [1], which is a
python package for changing color schemes in mintty on the fly.

I don't know if there already is such a function packaged in cygwin,
this was really just recreational. But if someone else finds it useful
- great!

/Joakim

[1] https://github.com/joakimkarlsson/mintty-colors

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Re: mintty-colors: changing colors in mintty on the fly

[jcwilson.cygwin]

This is pretty neat! It works as advertised in the standard Cygwin shell.

Any pointers on getting it working in ConsoleZ?

I can see this being very useful for denoting the purpose of a given shell. I tend to
have any number of shells open at once and this would certainly help when task-
switching.



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Re: mintty-colors: changing colors in mintty on the fly

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 29.05.2016 um 08:41 schrieb Joakim Karlsson:
> As a weekend project, I put together mintty-colors [1], which is a
> python package for changing color schemes in mintty on the fly.
>
> I don't know if there already is such a function packaged in cygwin,
> this was really just recreational. But if someone else finds it useful
> - great!
This is certainly useful, although with colour themes in the form of 
escape sequences (some minttyrc colour schemes are also distributed in 
this form), a simple `cat` would also do the trick. A simple shell 
script could do the listing or transform formats on-the-fly.
Anyway, mintty now has its own feature to load a colour scheme (option 
ThemeFile, also in the Options menu, but not from the command line) 
where colour schemes are kept in a dedicated subdirectory. It would be 
good to integrate your script with this, so it's not necessary to 
duplicate the schemes in two repositories.
Kind regards,
Thomas

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