How do I change colors on-the-fly in mintty?

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How do I change the colors in a Cygwin mintty session which is already open? Is it possible? Use case: Under environment-imposed time constraints, multiple terminal windows have been opened without forethought. In order to reduce the risk of typing the commands for system A into the terminal for sy…

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You can set the colours in the ~/.minttyrc file. Even better you can get a prebuilt theme from here: https://github.com/mavnn/mintty-colors-solarized Here is what I have in my ~/.minttyrc file: And here is the result:

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How do I change colors on-the-fly in mintty?

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