Re: Console colors out of control

[Thomas Baker <thomas dot baker at bi dot fhg dot de>]

FWIW, I was able to get decent-looking colors again by tweaking
the color settings in .muttrc, but now none of the various
sets of color settings I found on the net (such as Sven's)
look anything like what they are supposed to look like.
As if the behavior of color settings generally, in any bash
window, had been altered in a persistent way.

Oh well, as long as I can work around it...
Tom


On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 05:47:32PM +0200, Thomas Baker wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 17:47:32 +0200
> From: Thomas Baker <thomas.baker@bi.fhg.de>
> To: Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Subject: Console colors out of control
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> 
> I invoke bash under WIN2000 with a .bat file that executes bash
> --login -i.  Wanting to tweak the colors of the bash window
> (Properties -> Colors -> Screen Text, etc), I wrote down the
> Red-Green-Blue values and changed dark blue to black, etc.
> This worked as expected.
> 
> When I ran mutt, however, I suddenly had red and pink script
> on a dark violet background.  So I change the colors of the
> console window back to the original values, and this works,
> but mutt still comes up with wacky colors.  Windows being
> Windows, I reboot, but the wacky colors are still there
> when I run mutt.  I edit .muttrc, commenting out the color
> assignments, but still they remain.
> 
> My guess is that this is not a mutt problem per se, but
> something to do with the color basis that mutt is taking as its
> starting point.  Mutt wouldn't go and recalibrate its settings
> on its own, would it?
> 
> My question is: is this a Cygwin-specific problem, or is it
> purely Windows-related?  Any suggestions on how to get my
> readable colors back?  I'm reduced to reading my email in
> ten-minute shifts...!
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
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