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Subject: Re: Reverse Video in OW?
Summary: it's possible!
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.180603.4197@sequent.com>
Date: 11 Jun 91 18:06:03 GMT
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In article <1991Jun5.133032.1@hulaw1.harvard.edu> peregrin writes:
>	On a Monochrome SPARCstation, how does one set windows to
>reverse-video?  I'm at least trying to get cmdtool to come up in
>reverse video.

I lived with non-reverse video until my eyes complained so much that
I came up with a solution.  The solution is to use xterm instead of
cmdtool or shelltool.  xterm can do scrolling just like cmdtool, and
xterm understands and propogates the cursor keys a lot better than
cmdtool did for my applications.  To get reverse video in your xterms,
just add
    XTerm*reverseVideo:     True
to your .Xdefaults file, and to get a black root background, add these
lines after the olwm statup in .xinitrc:
    sleep 3
    xsetroot -solid black
BTW: xterm is in $OPENWINHOME/demo/xterm.  I created a symlink from
$OPENWINHOME/bin/xterm to it.

Still, I too would like to see options for shelltool/cmdtool to do
reverse video.

"When there's a will, there's a way."
-- 
Jim Battan - Sequent Computer Systems
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