battan@sequent.com (06/12/91)
In article <1991Jun5.133032.1@hulaw1.harvard.edu> peregrin writes: > On a Monochrome SPARCstation, how does one set windows to >reverse-video? I'm at least trying to get cmdtool to come up in >reverse video. I lived with non-reverse video until my eyes complained so much that I came up with a solution. The solution is to use xterm instead of cmdtool or shelltool. xterm can do scrolling just like cmdtool, and xterm understands and propogates the cursor keys a lot better than cmdtool did for my applications. To get reverse video in your xterms, just add XTerm*reverseVideo: True to your .Xdefaults file, and to get a black root background, add these lines after the olwm statup in .xinitrc: sleep 3 xsetroot -solid black BTW: xterm is in $OPENWINHOME/demo/xterm. I created a symlink from $OPENWINHOME/bin/xterm to it. Still, I too would like to see options for shelltool/cmdtool to do reverse video. "When there's a will, there's a way." -- Jim Battan - Sequent Computer Systems battan@sequent.com or uunet!sequent!battan +1 503 578 5129
dmaustin@vivid.sun.com (Darren Austin) (06/12/91)
In article <1991Jun11.180603.4197@sequent.com> battan@sequent.com writes: > In article <1991Jun5.133032.1@hulaw1.harvard.edu> peregrin writes: > > On a Monochrome SPARCstation, how does one set windows to > >reverse-video? I'm at least trying to get cmdtool to come up in > >reverse video. > [ stuff about using xterm instead ... ] > Still, I too would like to see options for shelltool/cmdtool to do > reverse video. Ask, and ye shall receive. This functionality has been added to the next release of XView (and no, I can't tell you when that is ;-) Cheers, --Darren -- Darren Austin | Actually, it's a buck and a quarter Sun Microsystems, Mountain View | quarter staff, but I'm not going to dmaustin@sun.com | tell *him* that.
afoiani@nmsu.edu (Anthony "Tkil" Foiani) (06/12/91)
Did you try:
{cmd,shell}tool -Wf 255 255 255 -Wb 0 0 0
?
Just a thought,
Tony
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In the referenced article afoiani@nmsu.edu (Anthony "Tkil" Foiani) writes: > >Did you try: > {cmd,shell}tool -Wf 255 255 255 -Wb 0 0 0 Or better, {cmd,shell}tool -Wf 255 255 255 -Wb 0 0 0 -Wg This gives inverse text area as well as just the border. -- Andrew J D Hurley, ( ajdh@stl.stc.co.uk ) Mail route: uunet!ukc!stl!ajdh | Phone: +44 279 429531 x. 2535 BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK.
sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch (Rainer Sinkwitz) (06/13/91)
In article <1991Jun11.180603.4197@sequent.com> battan@sequent.com writes: >In article <1991Jun5.133032.1@hulaw1.harvard.edu> peregrin writes: > >Still, I too would like to see options for shelltool/cmdtool to do >reverse video. > >"When there's a will, there's a way." >-- >Jim Battan - Sequent Computer Systems >battan@sequent.com or uunet!sequent!battan >+1 503 578 5129 Why not do a: shelltool -fg white -bg black It works fine. -- Rainer Sinkwitz | E-mail: sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch Dept. of Computer Science | sinkwitz%ifi.unizh.ch@relay.eu.net University of Zuerich | {backbone}!mcsun!unizh!sinkwitz
gordonc@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Gordon Cameron (RA DAI)) (06/14/91)
From article <1991Jun13.163059.3966@ifi.unizh.ch>, by sinkwitz@ifi.unizh.ch (Rainer Sinkwitz): > In article <1991Jun11.180603.4197@sequent.com> battan@sequent.com writes: >>In article <1991Jun5.133032.1@hulaw1.harvard.edu> peregrin writes: >> >>Still, I too would like to see options for shelltool/cmdtool to do >>reverse video. >> >>"When there's a will, there's a way." >>-- >>Jim Battan - Sequent Computer Systems >>battan@sequent.com or uunet!sequent!battan >>+1 503 578 5129 > > > Why not do a: shelltool -fg white -bg black > > It works fine. > All this is very well if you have a colour screen. However, if you have a mono screen, the problem remains if you try to use shell/command tools..
doehr@magellan.den.mmc.com (Brett B. Doehr) (06/17/91)
Being a color monitor user, I am now somewhat successfully
using cmdtool -fg white -bg black, but have a question. When
using this, the menus generated within the window (e.g., Term
Pane with all the textedit options) show up as white text on
a background of whatever color the Windows property is set to.
However, the Window title and the menu generated by clicking
on the window border (Window: Close...Quit) show up as black
text on a background of whatever color the Windows property
is set to. How can I get the window title and the toplevel
Window menu to inverse its video and use white text?
I am on a SPARCstation 2, SunOS 4.1.1, OpenWindows 2.0.
--Brett.
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