on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 10:04:43AM +0200, Karsten Heymann (karsten.heymann@gmx.de) wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 08:38:43PM -0700 or thereabouts, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 02:36:55AM +0200, Karsten Heymann (karsten.heymann@gmx.de) wrote: > > [...] > > > > Hi, Karsten: > > Hi :) > > >[...] > > $ startx -- -depth 1 > > Many applications/environments dither rather heavily when run in > > monochrome mode, results may vary. > > I'm sorry to be misunderstanding, but i meant a mono console. A mda > (momschrome display adaptor) isn't even able to display *any* > graphics[1]. > This is also very different from a monochrome vga monitor, which renders > 64 greys, an mda shows only gray, white and underlined. I need something > like pine's default, invert the active item - but i want also > the colors on termninals that support it. Ah. That changes things. > Again: > How do i tell my system that the _textmode console_ is > black/white? Don't know for sure, but I'd start looking at the terminal configuration. Looking at the terminfo database, $ ls /usr/share/terminfo/*/*mono* Produces: /usr/share/terminfo/a/ansi80x25-mono /usr/share/terminfo/a/ansi80x30-mono /usr/share/terminfo/a/ansi80x43-mono /usr/share/terminfo/a/ansi80x50-mono /usr/share/terminfo/a/ansi80x60-mono /usr/share/terminfo/a/ansil-mono /usr/share/terminfo/a/ansi-mono /usr/share/terminfo/a/ansis-mono /usr/share/terminfo/b/bsdos-pc-mono /usr/share/terminfo/i/ibmmono /usr/share/terminfo/i/ibmpc3r-mono /usr/share/terminfo/m/mono-emx /usr/share/terminfo/p/pcansi-mono /usr/share/terminfo/q/qnxtmono /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-mono ...one or more of which might provide what you're looking for. > Tia, > > Karsten > > [1] ... which was the gread advantage of the hercules card: There you > could use a 720x368 black/white graphics mode (I'll never forget > that numbers!) -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Are these opinions my employer's? Hah! I don't believe them myself!
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