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From: mh@roger.imsd.contel.com (Mike Hoegeman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OpenWindows reverse video again
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Date: 22 Oct 90 21:44:30 GMT
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 >In article <6645@castle.ed.ac.uk> mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Gordon) writes:
 >>I have been trying to get OpenWindows to give me windows with a black 
 >>background and white text without any luck. The recent posts here don't
 >>seem to work for me. Since I've only just started using X windows it's
 >>quite possible I'm doing something wrong. Could some kind soul mail me a
 >>step-by-step idiots guide to getting this to work.
 >>I'm running OpenWindows 2.0 on a Sun 4 with a monochrome monitor.
 >
 >First off, I agree with you.  I am a draftsman using an OpenWin app to 
 >design printed circuit boards in a dark room.  After a while, you feel
 >like everyone has been driving towards you with their brights on. B-)
 > After begging and bugging (re harassing), I learned that the ability 
 >to correctly change the ("canvas"?) color will be available in OW 3.0.
 > Until then...  Sigh.  We are stuck with the stupid tiny black letters 
 >on the stupid white background.  Sorry.  Anyone hack their color D/A
 >chip?  I would be happy to be able to change ALL of the white to
 >something less, er, white.  

with most Xview applications you can use flags on the cmd line to change
foreground and background colors. e.g.

    shelltool -fg green -bg blue -fn lucida-sans

for more details do a man 1 xview (with $OPNEWINHOME/man in your $MANPATH
environment variable)

-mike