spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (01/31/90)
>>>>> On 31 Jan 90 01:54:04 GMT, nataraj@celebrity.Sun.COM (Nataraj) said: > Is there a way to run gnuemacs on reverse video under X-Windows?? > Like white text on black window on a mono screen.. this is nothing to do with gnuemacs. its an X thing, to do with the different colours, characteristics whatever you set for things like backgroundfont and foregroundfont. do you have any emacs settings in your .Xdefaults? -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)
nataraj@celebrity.Sun.COM (Nataraj) (02/02/90)
In article <SPQR.90Jan31131057@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk> spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) writes: >>>>>> On 31 Jan 90 01:54:04 GMT, nataraj@celebrity.Sun.COM (Nataraj) said: > > > Is there a way to run gnuemacs on reverse video under X-Windows?? > > > Like white text on black window on a mono screen.. >this is nothing to do with gnuemacs. its an X thing, to do with the >different colours, characteristics whatever you set for things like >backgroundfont and foregroundfont. do you have any emacs settings in >your .Xdefaults? > >-- >Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) I know this has nothing to do with gnuemacs. I was basically looking for the .Xdefaults answer to it.. (the X standard command line option -fg color -bg color did'nt work for me ) Anyway I have got the .Xdefaults (gnuemacs *ReverseVideo) resource name.. and I am happy... Thanks to everyone who responded ... nataraj/. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Natarajan.S. 415-336-5798 (off) nataraj@sun.com 415-960-1750 (res) -----------------------------------------------------------------------
mac@rhea.ardent.com (Mike McNamara) (02/02/90)
> Is there a way to run gnuemacs on reverse video under X-Windows?? > > Like white text on black window on a mono screen.. > C-h f x-set-foreground-color x-set-foreground-color: Set foreground (text) color to COLOR. C-h f x-set-background-color x-set-background-color: Set background color to COLOR. Try some thing like this is your .emacs (if (eq window-system 'x) (progn (x-set-cursor-color "white") (x-set-mouse-color "yellow") (x-set-background-color "black") (x-set-foreground-color "yellow") (x-set-internal-border-width 3) (x-set-border-width 3) (x-set-border-color "blue") ) ) -- Michael McNamara (St)ardent, Inc. mac@ardent.com
unniks@hi3.ACA.MCC.COM (C. Unnikrishnan) (02/04/90)
>> Is there a way to run gnuemacs on reverse video under X-Windows?? > C-h f x-set-foreground-color ........ > x-set-foreground-color: > Set foreground (text) color to COLOR. > C-h f x-set-background-color > x-set-background-color: in a similar vein, you can do a m-x x-flip-color to just do reverse-video if you dont want to set the the fg, bg colors separately. unni ----------------------------------------------------- c. unni krishnan unni@mcc.com ##arpa internet {ihnp4,seismo,ucb-vax,gatech}!cs.utexas.edu!pp!unniks -- ----------------------------------------------------- c. unni krishnan unni@mcc.com ##arpa internet {ihnp4,seismo,ucb-vax,gatech}!cs.utexas.edu!pp!unniks