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I am trying to get 256 colors under Cygwin while running cmder. Generally, what I am doing is opening a terminal session in Windows 10 by typing "cmd" into Start. If I need to open a Cygwin terminal, I generally enter "bash" into that cmder instance.

When I run tput colors from within either the cmder prompt or the Cygwin terminal running within cmder, the system returns 8.

I have reviewed the following similar threads and references: ConEmu + ls -- 256 colors not working https://conemu.github.io/en/CygwinMsysConnector.html

(some links omitted due to low reputation limitations, see comments, but I am familiar with how Cygwin processes ANSI internally before passing it, parsed, to a ConEmu terminal)

I have downloaded the cygwin/msys connector and, indeed, tput colors returns 256 when I run the connector. What I would like to do is find a way to integrate this connector more directly into my workflow. I have environment variables that tie Cygwin more directly into my Windows terminal environment within cmder and sometimes run Cygwin commands from outside of a bash prompt, e.g. running vim on some file from a windows prompt, so simply running the connector every time I'd like access to the Cygwin bash isn't quite a complete solution for me. I'd like to know how to "wire up" this connector more directly so that it's running automatically, in the background, in lieu of running bash directly. I don't know if that makes any sense at all.

What I'm looking for is what environment variables, tasks, etc I need to set specifically to make this linkage happen more seamlessly.

edit: I realized it may be important to point out that I have cygwin's path put into my system environment variables.

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  • Output from cat AnsiColors256.ans: i.sstatic.net/Hc2Hf.png ... Here's what some of my cmder settings look like. Hopefully it's useful information: ... cmder Tasks: imgur.com/bkSyLQG ... cmder Environment Variables: imgur.com/bkSyLQG ... Cygwin.bat: imgur.com/2GAVzse ... Apologies for the clumsy comment edit, formatting limitations.
    – Bradley Evans
    Commented Jul 12, 2016 at 18:09
  • Why do you crop screenshots? Neither title nor status bars are visible.
    – Maximus
    Commented Jul 12, 2016 at 19:14
  • Privacy, largely. Was there specific information you would find helpful that I might provide? I hadn't realized the content of the title / statusbars was relevant. Looking back more closely, what you may be looking for is my ConEmu version, which is ConEmu 160710 [32] {Stable}.
    – Bradley Evans
    Commented Jul 12, 2016 at 20:54
  • Generally I'm interested in status bar: modes, sizes, visible rect, etc.
    – Maximus
    Commented Jul 13, 2016 at 1:09
  • check TERM value. with TERM=xterm-16color I have on mintty $ tput colors 16
    – matzeri
    Commented Jul 13, 2016 at 9:20

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To couple cygwin with ConEmu. Tested on ConEmu 160714 with terminals.v0.7.4.7z

https://github.com/Maximus5/cygwin-connector/releases

Extract conemu-cyg-64.exe from terminals.v0.7.4.7z and copied on C:\cygwin64\bin

Modify the Predefined task on Settings->Startup->Tasks from 

set CHERE_INVOKING=1 & C:\CygWin64\bin\bash.exe --login -i -new_console:C:"C:\CygWin\Cygwin.ico"

to 

set CHERE_INVOKING=1 & C:\cygwin64\bin\conemu-cyg-64.exe  /usr/bin/bash.exe --login -i -new_console:C:"C:\cygwin64\Cygwin.ico"

Set the Settings-> Features -> Colors -> Scheme to xterm

The 256colors are not fantastic, they look more only 16, but I guess is due to the mismatch between the connector and ConEmu

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