From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23202 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2016 14:46:22 -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 23194 invoked by uid 89); 16 Sep 2016 14:46:22 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_20,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=jamesdarnleygmailcom, sk:jamesd, U*james.darnley, sk:james.d X-HELO: mail-yw0-f174.google.com Received: from mail-yw0-f174.google.com (HELO mail-yw0-f174.google.com) (209.85.161.174) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:46:21 +0000 Received: by mail-yw0-f174.google.com with SMTP id t67so86464244ywg.3 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 07:46:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=9CEr9Goi2xEhwsDyuTPySVmCJBafXeGN7AezK6unG4g=; b=GoIq7tpMS2SlqRT/+qilO5eT3zd7DtzRofoOn2OOsXtksvYkgUWy/vguVy8lZrhJ6N x2C3CNj0c+Lyk+HiGBAd7KXqBBemv4weEiApsxmg04iefgh+7Xo1ayIIxsazsLVJbk2Z U5s8QByLEJzWt7HFFzdKnyJ9EbfvjlQx5VRxGGRly12Jma+roKddBwnld8W9YjRGsa5x fr2RfD7m00a0gCWEFd7psHyMFrY/Bet+bvZzYRNKi/XulJEBxr5fXUzVbfkAqgcevqrz ++emH36/pFyHL6bI8w03hig6hLBqiySZwGtUZGTWb6VcGvuczk1suWEIfy4WmDiOiepd 9w6Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AE9vXwNKc0ghLSGiy5U9VArQoPhASp+vLowmiZiOwHntVBk14w8hlkCkePZee8Xmt9QY/AuaMv42gBLAvtL3iA== X-Received: by 10.129.93.69 with SMTP id r66mr14694940ywb.15.1474037179301; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 07:46:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.129.129.66 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Sep 2016 07:46:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2c0d6fe2-a89c-7169-506a-937693b5aae4@gmail.com> References: <2c0d6fe2-a89c-7169-506a-937693b5aae4@gmail.com> From: David Karr Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:48:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: mintty shows some text in other than foreground color To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00229.txt.bz2 I've managed to resolve this. I turned off color output in the cqlsh config file. It doesn't provide a way that I can see to configure the colors that are used, and black works perfectly fine for me. On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 6:46 AM, James Darnley wrote: > 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. > -- 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