Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <000d01c06a9b$cdecd7a0$3800a8c0@tscintranet.com> Reply-To: "J. David Boyd" From: "J. David Boyd" To: "Cygwin" References: Subject: Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:44:56 -0500 Organization: TSC, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Loop-Detect: 1 Thanks, that's the info I was looking for. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bjoern Kahl AG Resy" To: "Cygwin" Cc: "J. David Boyd" Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 10:15 AM Subject: Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen > 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