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From: dcall@amadeus.la.tek.com (Dale Call)
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Subject: Re: Sunview alert box cursor (arrow) invisible
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john%hopf.math.nwu.edu@eecs.nwu.edu (John Franks) writes:
>I have just installed SunOS 4.0 on a grayscale 3/110.  I noticed that when
>an alert box appears (e.g. to confirm a quit), the arrow mouse cursor is
>hard to see.  Actually it is given the background color so it effectively
>punches a hole in the alert box.  If it is moved out of the box it is
>really invisible and it can be difficult to get it back in the box.

On a COLOR Sun 3/60 running Sun O/S 4.0, a fix is to invoke SunView with
either the -overlay_only or the -8bit_color_only flag.  In overlay_only
mode, the windows are only in the black and white overlay plane group.
The color mode puts them only in the color plane group (cursor turns red).
The overlay only mode will mess up color graphics, and the color only mode
is noticably slower (esp. text scrolling).  However, you no longer lose
the cursor.

See the sunview(1) manual page for more details.

Any better fixes out there?  Does 4.0.1 fix any of this?

Dale Call