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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> Could I instead put four rxvt's into .xinitrc and start 
> whatever applications I wanted from them, using Alt-Tab 
> to go between the rxvt's?

Yes.

> I edited menu.sh and removed -popup, and added an xterm/rxvt 
> line above the existing one and identical to it except for 87x38.

Two xterm entries in the menu?  Why?

> I typed startx and the menu now includes ONLY xterm and a 
> white blank  space below it that I can arrow to.  What might 
> I have done wrong to mess up the menu?   

Most likely a syntax error of some sort.  Perhaps you are
missing the closing '

> exec MENU -teleport                   \
>       'xterm ...87x38 ...             \
>       'xterm ...                      \

Without the complete lines, I can't diagnoze a syntax error.

> > It relies on an external application which then displays 
> > in either SVGAlib or X (depending on which application).
> 
> zgv does not use either, it uses a bunch of other libraries.  

If think if you look carefully, you will see that one of those 
libraries is SVGAlib (libvga).

> > What is happening now?  Do you get a non-bold rendition?
> > Or nothing at all?
> 
> non-bold.  

Could be worse.

> I have numbered them so I can find them when they are not bold.  

I thought you always numbered them for easy selection.

> Another solution might be to use colors in lynx.  

Sounds like a good way to go.


Cheers,
Steven