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Hi, List, from: Czerno.

Did I report that under the BL3 GUI, I live in (mostly) black & white
? Desktop background is, saddeningly, black. Is this by design, or
due to my obligatory video settings in 16 colours (EGA-like) ? Is it
possible to (re-)define the palette used by apps and the desktop
itself so colours are applied and, where necessary, approximated
(guess it's called dithering) ? After all my Windows 95 also runs in
4-bit coulour modes, yet it shows a multiplicity of colours,
manipulating the HW palettes (it's VGA all the same, *not* CGA!) &
dithering pictures when appropriate, I believe.

For instance, running Lynx in a virtual terminal window, it comes out
as black text on white, not the colours that it gets in a terminal
console using the same config file. As such Lynx is barely usable in
the GUI, not that I want colours for the prettiness, but the various
colours used by Lynx have a significance; some characters even seem
to come out white on white, which is not too conspicuous !

I have been making all sort of efforts to set up a usable BL3, but if
I can't fix more or less this colour problem, not to speak of the
national keyboard at least in the GUI, it'll remain little more than
a souvenir from a trip to Unixland. Nice trip anyway, and thank you

-- 
Czerno




      
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