Re: dselect in xterm
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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
> When I use dselect in an Xterm the text is rather annoying compared to
> the way it is in a plain terminal. When I open an Xterm, by default I get
> black text on a white background. I am using Windowmaker, so I hold down
> the ctrl key and click the middle button. I then enable reverse video
> and get white text on a black background (the way I like it). When I run
> dselect the packages listed show as black text on white squares. In the
> description area, the text is black on white squares too. The area where
> there is no text, the background is black, matching the reverse video
> mode. In a regular terminal, it is not at all like this. In my xterm,
> it is rather annoying. Any suggestions, so I don't have black text on
> white blocks when running dselect from an xterm?
i normally run rxvt instead of xterm, but i just did a test with dselect
and i get the same results. Try running xterm with the -rv option.
$ xterm -v
XFree86 3.9.15b(113)
$ dpkg -l xterm # running potato
...
ii xterm 3.3.4-2 X terminal emulator
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