[comp.sys.sun] Underscore at bottom of screen

roy%phri@uunet.uu.net (Roy Smith) (08/02/89)

Sometime during the past few weeks, something strange happend with my
selection service.  The first I noticed, all my selections, instead of
being in reverse video, came out on the screen as underlines, and I
couldn't "Get" them.  I never use secondary selections, but I gather that
is what I was getting.  I ended up rebooting my machine and it went back
to normal.  A good experiment would have been to just kill the selection
service process and start it up again, but I didn't think of it in time.

Anyway, now I have in the lower-left corner of one of my windows (always
the same one, a full-height shelltool I use most of the time) an
underscore.  Whatever character is in the lower-left corner is underlined.
It doesn't seem to bother anything, but it is annoying.  I had been
playing with defaultsedit, so it's obvious that I must have changed
something, but I can't figure out what.  Any guesses which option I might
have toggled?  

Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
{att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu
"The connector is the network"

jaysun@eng.clemson.edu (Jay Williamson) (08/22/89)

In article <783@brazos.Rice.edu> roy%phri@uunet.uu.net (Roy Smith) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 94, message 18 of 21
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>Sometime during the past few weeks, something strange happend with my
>selection service.  The first I noticed, all my selections, instead of
>being in reverse video, came out on the screen as underlines, and I
>couldn't "Get" them.  I never use secondary selections, but I gather that
>is what I was getting.  I ended up rebooting my machine and it went back
>to normal.  A good experiment would have been to just kill the selection
>service process and start it up again, but I didn't think of it in time.
>Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute
>455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
>{att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy -or- roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu
>"The connector is the network"

I have had the same problem before and rebooting always worked but I
finally got curious enough to start pressing buttons and the L9 button
toggled it back to reverse video. (type 3 keyboard) Hope this helps.

Jay Williamson            Engineering Computer Operations
jaysun@eng.clemson.edu    Clemson University
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