Latest Cygwin update and Emacs in Mintty
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Thu Jun 15 13:35:00 GMT 2017
On 6/15/2017 6:47 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 6/14/2017 3:00 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> Achim Gratz writes:
>>> After the latest Cygwin update I'm hitting an interesting problem with
>>> emacs-nox running in a mintty: when Emacs starts, it decides that the
>>> background color is gray instead of the usual white (for all but the
>>> rightmost character in the status line, interestingly enough). I have
>>> the normal mintty background set slightly off-white (to #F8F8F8) and
>>> mintty reports itself as xterm-256color (the same happens in when TERM
>>> is set to screen-256color). Emacs starts up with the correct background
>>> color, draws the status bar and the menu bar and only then switches the
>>> background to gray. The gray it choses is very slightly lighter than
>>> the status bar (so lightly in fact that I can make out the difference on
>>> only one of my three monitors). Emacs really thinks it is using a white
>>> background, as evidenced by the fact that (set-background-color "white")
>>> will produce exactly the same result. I get my usual background back
>>> with (set-background-color "#F8F8F8"), but I have no idea where the
>>> wrong setting for the named color "white" comes from.
>>>
>>> I'm just trying this at home remotely logging in from a konsole terminal
>>> on my Linux box: Here the background chosen is slightly darker than the
>>> status bar, the status bar seems to be #B8B8B8 and the background for
>>> "white seems to be #B4B4B4. Curious and curiouser...
>>
>> Ken, did you have a chance to look into this?
>
> Sorry, I must have missed this when you first sent it. I'll take a look.
I also see some strange behavior, but I can't reproduce what you're
seeing. Here's what I tried:
1. I edited .minttyrc to set BackgroundColour=#F8F8F8.
(ForegroundColour is 0,0,0, which I guess is the default.)
2. I ran 'emacs-nox -Q'. The background color didn't visibly change;
it's still off-white. The mode line and menu line appear to be reversed
(black background, off-white foreground, though I can't really be sure
that the foreground is off-white rather than white).
3. I evaluated (set-background-color "white"). This caused the
background to turn gray. The mode line and menu bar didn't visibly change.
4. I evaluated (set-background-color "#F8F8F8"). The background stayed
gray.
I need to investigate 3 and 4, but first I'd like to understand why you
and I are seeing different things. One difference is the value of TERM.
You say "mintty reports itself as xterm-256color". Do you mean it
does this by default, or do you have something in your startup files
that causes this? When I start mintty, I get the following:
$ echo $TERM
xterm
Ken
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