Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!tank!oddjob!mimsy!dftsrv!ames!hc!tomlin
From: tomlin@hc.DSPO.GOV (Bob Tomlinson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Sun color 3/60 on NeWS
Message-ID: <14367@hc.DSPO.GOV>
Date: 2 Sep 88 23:23:23 GMT
References: <610@modular.UUCP>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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in article <610@modular.UUCP>, hagen@modular.UUCP (Jeffrey R. Hagen) says:
> 
> In NeWS on a Sun color 3/60, if you forget to open up a console window
> and you write something to the console, the black and white console
> message scribbles over the NeWS screen. Repair doesn't clear it.

Yeah, you need to do run the "switcher -n" command to switch your framebuffer
back to the color framebuffer for that part of the screen which got written
on.  Simply change the repaint menu selection (from user.ps):

0 (Repaint All)   {
        PaintRoot {/paint self send} AllWin
        (switcher -n) forkunix
} /changeitem repairmenu send

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