From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 47302 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2016 19:39:08 -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 47291 invoked by uid 89); 16 Sep 2016 19:39:07 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=Color, Designer, H*u:38.2.0, H*UA:38.2.0 X-HELO: mout.kundenserver.de Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (HELO mout.kundenserver.de) (217.72.192.74) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 19:39:06 +0000 Received: from [192.168.178.45] ([95.91.214.50]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0McFi3-1bT2iO4AHX-00JduR for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 21:39:04 +0200 Subject: Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <2c0d6fe2-a89c-7169-506a-937693b5aae4@gmail.com> From: Thomas Wolff Message-ID: <57DC4A57.8000306@towo.net> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 20:52:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <2c0d6fe2-a89c-7169-506a-937693b5aae4@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:Je2+G9eYONI=:8SSqaJKoUFkMuzWhaXM2X+ 5bPTLdm3vqEOnM7OmuVYCtrgz1rspDyUmp6kWnsGa36KDiLAPz0AfDDTcKF4PKTRJ6GoNxqmj JwwnjduZLIwc0ebawsPFsbOoJoSMb+8is7MjoNcIfbnFCYw9WWQha2A1OYku+jNnsccqQLdc2 gzYA7p/utaWc+iqGdWlMMVuzuKmvKgqCHwwpr2+HjDF7d2QXNmTiaaMVYm5IBGk41C8yRU+1F lKzxKcy4IRvXTGDoyVfJm8LVrxFWlcD/I0q3v7WOM12HLt2Gmf34NGuDev9PdfMPm00B18f1a coYpQgqa913NQK1QjcVoDSlFAlERlsBYGtuMR/4oajjmPxh4eGqhZfWctLaVDlia+itJ1ivlm tTYrP8QDVO6wixA+XUsn3nUICmUBK2i6TUz1aREszhX7PFUPuoU6UGtEcaEp4hNXjVlgKFMvu TPOdahUOpxTKc4zy3c79sJDQ1ShGhBSz4gFPlGoYACenm7Cco/AMYqd9Uj8uFqk/yT4jrwn3a niQHa1c138BlIPGqvyOgdfS3TkPh1ZSSzo2WiMAtoqP+E0b83m0AD3XRODxHjZAcNKYxkITG1 fagimPO0GYuNcmRJNLU2lLIY4gT+Wn5URDfO38MgEXl7HNvz8AuvlHvtEYBDnd+17tEx48o9/ kvQqYvcKylY2Guq3/lH1XnyXqTJZ5EZukKv2tmlvpY4PzGyhyezxuXYy2jbiiZ6xXZHjjuyBZ DbW0cp4IQo4fHAEe X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00232.txt.bz2 Hi James, > 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.) Mintty has meanwhile support for colour schemes ("themes") and cooperates with the Color Scheme Designer for that purpose, which I consider an excellent solution and easier to use than individual colour configuration. Thomas -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple