From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Jan 24 14:02:30 2003
Subject: Re: Octave 4 windows - Background colors
From: Agustin Barto <abarto at efn dot uncor dot edu>
To: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 17:02:49 -0300

I think you can also use

-bg black -fg green

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:47:55 -0600
"Dirk Eddelbuettel" <edd at debian dot org> wrote:

> 
> > 
> > would like to change the background color from white to black, and the font
> > color from black to green.
> 
> 
> I replaced the cygwin.bat call of "bash --login -i" with this:
> 
> rem edd 26 Mar 2002 switched to rxvt (also from cygwin)
> rem bash --login -i
> rem this trick from the mailing list (John Wiersba, 29 Jun 2001)
> rxvt -g 80x70+200+50 -fg #000055 -bg #eeeeee -fn "Courier-11" -sr -sl 5000 -vb -e
> /bin/bash --login -i
> 
> I'm sure you can adjust the color arguments for foreground (fg) and background 
> (bg) to your liking. I can't remember whether rxvt is in the default Cygwin
> installation, if not I highly recommend adding it. The default terminal is 
> pretty terrible.  Rxvt allows cut and paste to windows apps with is nice.
> 
> Dirk
> 
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