I am completely drowned by the volume and complexity (and in some cases antiquity) of responses when googling [variations on] "xterm color": e.g. multiple references to all of .Xdefaults, .Xresources, .xinitrc and much much more. I do not have any of these. Using xterm within Cygwin the file /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm seems to serve all required purposes relating to color. I have (comments # below are not part of the file):
xterm*color3: orange # for selected text using Find/Replace in nano xterm*color10: darkgreen # for binaries and any *.sh using ls xterm*color12: blue # for folders using ls xterm*color13: maroon # for sockets using ls xterm*color14: brown # for links using ls xterm*color1: purple # cant find any instances of these 4 being used but often see them in online examples of XTerm xterm*color2: tan xterm*color6: yellow xterm*color11: red Question 1 I'm not inclined to mend what isn't broken but do others find this file and its location a convenient or even a recommended way to control the palette? Question 2 I think there are 16 settings available (xterm*colorNN, 1 to 16) but nowhere have I been able to find a reference describing what each controls. Can anybody please point me to such a reference? Question 3 In minty not xterm I get pretty much the same thing (sockets are shown purple not maroon; selected text in Find/Replace in nano is shown red not orange), but think this is just coincidental. I have no idea where mintty in Cygwin (or bash - all different again) get their colors from. Please can anybody say? Thank you! -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
