Sorry: just seen in the manual: write echo $'\e]4;3;255,255,0\a' and similarly, in a script. Fergus -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple