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RE: prompt colors in xterm
- To: "'Robert Jacobson'" <teridon at erols dot com>, cygwin-xfree at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: RE: prompt colors in xterm
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:11:16 -0400
I sent you my PS1 command. Does it help?
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Jacobson [mailto:teridon@erols.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 9:45 AM
> To: Suhaib Siddiqi; cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: RE: prompt colors in xterm
>
>
>
> what .bashrc are you using? You said "This is my PS1", but then you
> didn't specify what you had PS1 set to. To elaborate my problem -- I
> don't have problems with single color foreground and background --
> only when I change the colors on the prompt. If there are other
> programs that set the color of text while in an xterm, I'll be happy
> to try it if you tell me what they are.
>
> I typically don't using startxwin.bat -- I'm using Harold's shadow
> framebuffer server. I did use it to see if it made a difference; it
> doesn't help.
>
> Do me a favor, please? -- email me (not to the list) a screen dump of
> your xterm showing me that you have a prompt with a color other than
> black -- and *different* than the foreground color. At least then
> I'll have faith that it works on some computers.
>
> At 9:03 AM -0400 04/02/01, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> >This is my PS1 from my /etc/bashrc which get source by
> ~/.bashrc on startup.
> >I do not have the problems you mention. I use the following
> command to
> >start
> >xterm or mxterm from startxwin.bat
> >
> >if "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" start /B xterm -sl 1000 -sb
> -rightbar -ms red -fg
> >yellow -bg black -e bash
> >if "%OS%" == "" start xterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red
> -fg yellow -bg
> >black -e bash
> >if "%OS%" == "Windows_NT" start /B mxterm -sl 1000 -sb
> -rightbar -ms red -fg
> >yellow -bg black -e bash
> >if "%OS%" == "" start mxterm -sl 1000 -sb -rightbar -ms red
> -fg yellow -bg
> >black -e bash
> >
> >Suhaib
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Robert Jacobson [mailto:teridon@erols.com]
> >> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 8:53 AM
> >> To: cygwin-xfree@sourceware.cygnus.com
> >> Subject: prompt colors in xterm
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've asked this question once, but never got it resolved.
> >>
> >> Colored text in xterm prompts displays as black, no
> matter what the
> >> foreground/background colors are. That's invisible if your
> >> background is black. :(
> >>
> >> for example, set PS1 to '\e[0:36m\u\e[m # '
> >>
> >> That should make the prompt your username in cyan, and a
> foreground
> >> colored "#". But in cygwin xfree, the username is black.
> >>
> >> This happens on both my Win2k and Win98 computers.
> >> --
> >> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> >> Robert Jacobson teridon@erols.com
> >> BS, Aeronautical Engineering Univ. of Md., College Park
> >> Flight Ops. Team - SOlar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
> >>
>
> --
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
> Robert Jacobson teridon@erols.com
> BS, Aeronautical Engineering Univ. of Md., College Park
> Flight Ops. Team - SOlar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
>