pollara@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Victor Pollara) (02/14/91)
We have recently installed Release 4.1.1 on our machines. Up till then, I had no problems with the call: suntools -i which makes my screen white-on-black. I do this because black-on-white kills my eyes. With Release 4.1.1 this same command has the following effect: 1. My background is white-on-black 2. Command shell, clock, mailbox, etc. are black-on-white!! 3. >>critical<< the mouse-arrow DOES NOT reverse color when it moves into these white fields!!! That is, it is invisible in the command shell, etc. 4. When I open new shells, editors, etc., they are white-on-black and the mouse-arrow functions properly. This is a real pain. I have to kill all of the black-on-white objects and restart them to get white-on-black ones. Our hypothesis: The default windows (command shell, clock, mailbox, etc.) are configured before the inverse option is internally set. The background is configured after the inverse option is internally set, so everything created thereafter is OK.