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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

> >
> > 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

e3pi and pico are both using black backgrounds with white text, and the 
cursor seems to be black by default, which might explain why I can't see 
it.  I will let you know only if it does NOT work to change just the 
cursor color (-cr green) in the xterm.  I think in 'edit menu' in the menu 
I saw black text on white background and a black cursor.  Maybe you want 
to put -cr green in the xterm in your menu in the next version?
(I am in DOS right now so cannot check.  Everything is a cheery amber on 
black).  I might try amber or yellow as -fg colors.

I think where I fill in the URL in links (the little box) might also have 
been black text on white background, so that the black cursor showed up.


> > 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.

I see why it took so long to set this all up to work almost perfectly.
Even for those of us trying to do strange things with strange hardware.

> > 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).

For non-mouse users how would I go about making two half-size xterms, one 
in top and one in bottom half of the screen?  Then I could run two 
programs in split screen if I got tired of Alt-Tabbing between them.  
For 800 res both -geometry 87x30 but where do I specify location?


> 
> > 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.


I think you have solved my problem already - black cursor on black 
background.  I will try a green cursor.  I also could not see the cursor 
when using another standard keyboard which had 104 keys.  (I don't see why 
XT is not standard, there are more than one standard).

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

Remote - but pico is also white on black there.


Wow, all my problems fixed in one day!