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Re: mintty colors


On 2010-03-03, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Gary Johnson:
> > I have downloaded mintty-0.6-beta2-cygwin15.zip and read
> > mintty-0.5.8.pdf, but I don't see a way to change the ANSI color
> > palette other than to send escape sequences.
> 
> You're right, there isn't, as documented.
> 
> >?I could echo the
> > escape sequences in my ~/.bashrc, but mintty isn't the only terminal
> > I use.
> 
> You could just make that bit conditional on the value of TERM.

Except that mintty doesn't have its own terminfo database, so TERM
needs to be set to "xterm".

> (Also, the escape sequence for this was introduced by xterm, so it's
> probably supported by other terminals as well. And unrecognised escape
> sequences are supposed to be ignored anyway.)

In that case, I can try putting that in my ~/.bashrc and see if any
problems result.

> > My specific problem is that the blue that mintty displays for ANSI
> > color 4 or 12 is so dark that blue characters are illegible on a
> > black background. I've adjusted the color that rxvt uses by putting
> >   Rxvt.color12:               #007fff
> >   Rxvt.color4:                #007fff
> 
> Blue (i.e. color 4) on black background is just a bad idea, full stop.
> Brightening it up by default would impair its usability as a
> background colour. (Try 'mc' with your setting.)

To each his own.  I've found that with the monitors I'm currently
using, #007fff is a good compromise and has good contrast against
black and white as a foreground or background color.

> And mintty's default for colour 12 is #4040ff, which is much the same
> brightness as #007fff.

Yeah, it's pretty close.

I downloaded the source for mintty-0.5.8 onto my laptop at home last
night, edited that ANSI color table and built it.  It went very
well and the result looks good.  I was about to do the same at work
today, but seeing your comment about unknown escape sequences being
ignored, I think I'll try the echo-in-.bashrc approach first.

Regards,
Gary


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