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Bashrc distinguish between mintty and x-windows xterm
- From: Andy <AndyMHancock at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 00:38:59 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Bashrc distinguish between mintty and x-windows xterm
My bashrc sets the color of the prompt depending on $TERM. My x-windows xterm
has a white background and the cygwin default terminal, which has a black
background, use to not have $TERM=xterm. I could distinguish between them in
the bashrc script, and set the prompt colours accordingly. Now with mintty
emulating an xterm, $TERM takes on the string "xterm" (but it has a black
background). I would like to find a simple bash script way to tell the
difference between when bashrc is being called from a mintty versus an actual
x-windows xterm. Can anyone suggest a way?
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