Re: [LINUX5250] Re: TN5250 & X5250 issues

["Jack J. Woehr" <jax@xxxxxxxx>]

James Rich wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
>
> > "Jack J. Woehr" wrote:
> >
> >>    * x5250
> >>        1. Any way to get better colors out of x5250?
> >>
> >
> > Nemmind the colors, I've figured it out ( -bg black -fg green)
>
> Without these switches x5250 isn't using black and green?  Those are the
> default colours and should be what is used when no switches and no other
> defaults exist.
>
> Note that I have encountered situations where the window manager was
> setting some defaults without my knowlege.

It's using Sun CDE default colors. No mystery.

> > I'm also passing the -geometry 132x27 switch and not getting it.
>
> Right now the geometry switch doesn't do anything.  I should remove it
> from the help.  The window size is determined by the font you choose.

Actually tested it on displaying a wide database row. x5250 correctly "hops" to 
132x27

> env.TERM = IBM-3477-FC

I just pass this in the command line in a launch script.

Thanks for all your help!

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