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From: mdb@amadeus.UUCP (Mark D. Baushke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Some strange X window behavior
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Date: 5 Feb 88 23:28:52 GMT
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>  Date: Fri, 5 Feb 88 11:29:30 EST
>  From: sun!wheaties.ai.mit.edu!andrew (Andrew A. Chien)
>  Subject: Some strange X window behavior
>  
>  I have been trying to run GNU Emacs under X10 and have 
>  been unable to get the window to come up in inverse video.
>  I have tried configuring emacs (inverse video appears to be
>  not implemented) and changing the stuff in my .Xdefaults file,
>  and the stuff in my .uwmrc file and no combination seems to 
>  work.

Try putting a line like this into your .Xdefaults file (both X10 and X11):

emacs.reversevideo:		on

You must use "on" (not "On", "ON", or "oN"). 
This works for me on a Sun3/50 running SunOS 3.4 with GNU Emacs 18.49.

>  This problem only appears on the Sun3/50 (black and white models)
>  and doesn't appear on the 3/110 (color models).
>  
>  Also, what do I need to do to convert to X11?

The X11-emacs patches will be hopefully be available in the 18.50
release of GNU Emacs (out in a few weeks?). Until then you should
contact Robert S. French <rfrench@athena.mit.edu> about getting the
Beta-test copy of the patches.

(Note that the X11 version of GNU Emacs does not yet support
popup-menus.)

Mark Baushke
silvlis!mdb@sun.com