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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 09:03:21 -0400
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)
>