Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!Firewall!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!unizh!sinkwitz From: sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch (Rainer Sinkwitz) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: Reverse Video in OW? Message-ID: <1991Jun14.144441.9821@ifi.unizh.ch> Date: 14 Jun 91 14:44:41 GMT References: <11034@chorus.fr> Reply-To: sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch Organization: University of Zurich, Department of Computer Science Lines: 37 In article <11034@chorus.fr> bp@chorus.fr (Bruno Pillard) writes: > >From various recent articles > >> Did you try: >> {cmd,shell}tool -Wf 255 255 255 -Wb 0 0 0 >> This works... > >% Or better, >% {cmd,shell}tool -Wf 255 255 255 -Wb 0 0 0 -Wg >% >% This gives inverse text area as well as just the border. > >- Why not do a: shelltool -fg white -bg black >- >- It works fine. > >All these combinations still don't work... for me !! > >I'm using the OpenWindows "xnews" server as delivered by SUN with >SunOS 4.1 on a monochrome screen (SPARCstation SLC) and I can't get >reverse video shelltools ! > >Are you using SunOS 4.1.1, another version of OpenWindows ? I'm using a color workstation. I also tested it on a monochrome one to see: It doesn't work on monochrome Screens !!! So you'r finally out of luck ;-( Greetings -- Rainer Sinkwitz | E-mail: sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch Dept. of Computer Science | sinkwitz%ifi.unizh.ch@relay.eu.net University of Zuerich | {backbone}!mcsun!unizh!sinkwitz