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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> > Sindi Keesan wrote:
> > >
> > > 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
> 
> Have you tried changing the color scheme as suggested above.
> I've just been playing around with the colors and it does
> seem to make a difference.  If the cursor color (currently 
> black) is taken from rxvt and run on an application's black
> background, you get an invisible cursor.  


Well, it looks like there were two separate problems with the cursor.
I have a nice big green cursor using pico at a shell account (in pine, 
lynx, or alone).  I can now see where I am typing in this mail.
But e3pi has a green cursor only at the very bottom of the screen, not 
when I am typing text above.  No big deal at all, and I don't need to use 
e3pi in X except to edit the menu perhaps, and it worked for that oddly 
enough.  Maybe there is a bug in e3pi?  Or Xvesa?

I might try a slightly larger font at 800 resolution rather than squinting 
at this one.  Would you want to offer xterm-640 and xterm-800 in the menu 
with different font sizes?  Is there a 10x20?  I have trouble telling the 
a from the o with this font and resolution.  I know other people who have 
trouble reading small fonts and don't want to get bifocals.  block looks 
like block.  


> 
> In BL3.02, I will be changing the rxvt cursor color to DarkCyan.
> That works well with the current background/foreground colors
> and is clearly visible on a black background.

Good, that will save other people from wondering where the black cursor 
went.  


> Cheers,
> Steven
> 
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