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From: curfmanm@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Matthew Curfman)
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Subject: A Few Questions ...
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Date: 16 Dec 90 07:13:28 GMT
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A couple of questions:

(1) Is there any sort of init that would allow me to change the default
    background colors of the desktop.  I know about the Desk Color NDA,
    but I want to change the actual pallette, and get rid of those
    yucky dithered colors.  I want just black, white, the dark blue
    like the border color, and yellow.  This should be possible, and
    I don't care what it might do to the color apple menu. I would like
    to have the background the dark blue color, like SNOWTERM does,
    but with all of my software.

(2) A school that I am consulting for has a network of GS's.  They would
    like to use Twilight Companion, which blanks the text screen.  Is
    there any way to make Twilight Companion to check to see if the old
    280x192 graphics mode is on and blank that as well.  They use
    a lot of the old MECC software, and would like to have the screen
    blanked when the students leave the lab for any duration.  My under-
    standing is that the Twilight CDEV only blanks the GS specific graphics
    modes, and Twilight Companion blanks only text screens.

I would appreciate any insight on the above problems!

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Matt Curfman                                                  Technovelty. Inc.
curfmanm@prism.cs.orst.edu                              Oregon State University

     OSU says what it says. I say what I say. We don't say the same thing.