[comp.sys.sun] OpenLook questions

apple@nprdc.navy.mil (Jim Apple) (08/09/90)

I have two question about OpenLook / XView, I'm running X11R4 with the
olwm and the shelltool that comes with XView

1. how do I get a shelltool to be in reverse video ??

2. do I really have to mark text with the mouse then copy and then paste??
this seems like a extra step that's not in sunview or X11.

	Jim Apple 			apple@nprdc.navy.mil
	WB1DOG				...}ucsd!nprdc!apple

lemay@lorelei.eng.sun.com (Laura Lemay) (08/10/90)

In article <1990Aug9.021407.5627@rice.edu> apple@nprdc.navy.mil (Jim Apple) writes:
> 1. how do I get a shelltool to be in reverse video ??

Xview tools accept most of the arguements you could use with Sunview
tools, including the -Wb (background) and -Wf (foreground) options, so the
following will give you inverse:

shelltool -Wb 0 0 0 -Wf 255 255 255

You can make this the default for all your windows by putting the
following two lines in your .Xdefaults file:

Window.Color.Background:	0   0   0
Window.Color.Foreground:	255 255 255

Warning:  Some tools may not handle inverse particularly well.  For these
I've discovered that making the background a dark gray (say, 150 rather
than 255) and keeping the foreground black  works pretty well.

*********************************************************
Laura Lemay		                    lemay@sun.com
Redhead.  Drummer.  Geek.			sun!lemay
*********************************************************