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Sindi Keesan wrote:
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> Any idea what is going on with my cursor?

Perhaps a different color scheme for rxvt would help?
BL2 uses:  -bg black -cr green -fg white

> Steven why could I not have two sizes of xterm in the 
> menu without losing everything in the menu after the 
> first one?  

It was probably a syntax error or layout problem.  When the 
menu routine hits an error, it ignores the remaining items 
and displays whatever it has of the menu.  When setting up 
BL3, I had this happen several times (from my own syntax 
errors).  There was, however, one particularly difficult 
one to figure out:  when moving whole lines around the menu, 
I triggered something (line wrapping?) that stopped the menu 
routine reading beyond that line.  This was fixed by using 
the backspace to drag the beginning of the suspect line back 
up to the end of the previous line and pressing ENTER.

> Am I not allowed to name them both the same way as xterm?  

I wouldn't expect duplicate names in the menu to be a problem,
but I could be wrong.

> It might be helpful to have a choice of two sizes of xterm, 

You've got to be joking.  It is easy for mouse-users to resize
the window to anything they want.  Alternatively, the geometry 
paramater can be edited in the menu (even from the CLI).

> except that I still dont have any cursor when using e3pi 

This is your nonstandard keyboard right?  Xvesa drives the 
keyboard.  It might be that Xvesa doesn't accommodate a keyboard 
like yours.  Or, perhaps, there is an Xvesa parameter to address 
that issue.

You might get further with this particular issue if you do a 
google search or enquire in a discussion group where there is 
a broader spectrum of users.

> or pico in X.  

Pico?  Are you running pico on BL3?  Or are you talking about
losing your *remote* cursor?


Cheers,
Steven