Hi Scott:
I'm trying to get green text on a black background. All I can get is white
text on a black background. However, I can have a red cursor and a purple
mouse pointer. So far I've tried all of these possibilities in my
.tn5250rc file, but with no luck:
white=green
green=white
green=red
red=green
white=red
red=white
After I save .tn5250rc, I log back into my XDM, which starts xt5250. No
matter what I try it doesn't work.
I was able to however, make this change in the xt5250 script:
exec xterm -name "xt5250" -bg black -fg darkGoldenrod4 +ah -cr plum -T
"xt5250 - $XT5250_HOST" \
+sb -tn xterm-5250 -geometry 80x25 -e "$0" -BOOT -y IBM-3477-FC "$@"
However, that changes everything on the screen. I like the idea of color
remapping better, if I could get it to work...
Regards,
Fred Schnittke MCSE, MCP,
Network Administrator
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Re: [LINUX5250] xt5250 Colors?
fschnittke@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I added white=green, then green=white to my .tn5250rc file, but I still
have a black background with white text
Ummm... The typical color of text sent by the system would be green.
So if you map green to white, you SHOULD get white text. In your
config, you don't appear to have re-mapped black to anything else.
So I guess I'm not following you?
The other possibility might be that you're not using a color xterm...
honestly, it's been years since I saw a non-color xterm, but then, I
rarely work in anything else besides FreeBSD so maybe this is still
common on other platforms, I don't know...?
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