From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bjoern Kahl AG Resy To: Cygwin Cc: "J. David Boyd" Subject: Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 07:15:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <001001c06a94$b2b22fa0$3800a8c0@tscintranet.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-12/msg00934.html On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, J. David Boyd wrote: Hallo ! > I mean that I am running light grey characters on a black background (The > ms-dos prompt default in win98), and it is too hard on the eyes, with not > enough contrast. I want to use a white background with black letters. Well, I would prefer white on black, but thats OT > I'll look in the man page for bash again, I must have missed it before. In the man for bash you may find how to set things like hostname or username in PS. For the colors, IIRC you should read a description of the terminal. one example is the linux- manpage console_codes (section 4 I think). I dont have it here (so I may wrong) , but try looking for the mode-commands: " some_magic_numbers " Just tried it: echo -e "\033[34m test" gives a blue "test" , 33 gives yellow. Bjoern > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Reid Thompson" > > A man on bash will give information re the PS prompts > > -- when you say you wish to change the color of your > > env,, how do you mean? > > --- "J. David Boyd" wrote: > > > How about a clue as to what I need to read to > > > decipher what the different items in PS1 do? > > > I would like to change the color of my cygwin > > > environment, and I'm presuming that this is where I > > > would do it... -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dipl.-Phys. Bjoern Kahl +++ AG Embedded Systems and Robotics (RESY) | | Informatics Faculty +++ Building 48 +++ University of Kaiserslautern| | phone: +49-631-205-2654 +++ www: http://resy.informatik.uni-kl.de | +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple