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On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Message from Steven
> ===================
> Sindi wrote:
> > Is it swm which reverses the colors?
>
> swm?  Don't you mean jwm?  BL3 uses jwm.
I mean jwm.

> I'm not sure that the wm is reversing the colors.
> It could be Xvesa.  Try the adding the -swaprgb
> parameter to your Xvesa command.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven

That did not help.

Started from an rxvt: rxvt -bg black -fg white produces white on black 
instead of black on white 'xterm' (actually rxvt).  I could not get the 
inverse rxvt to actually work - would not accept keystrokes.  jwm does not 
like my 84-key keyboard so I tend to avoid it.  (Neither does mplayer).

I did not try editing the jwm menu to change the rxvt colors.
I don't see any particular advantage of white on black instead of black on 
white (light grey).

I am used to running lynx without colors (TTL monitor).

Karolis used the same lynx.lss that I did.  I cannot figure out why in BL2 
lynx displays blue on light grey (which is not what lynx.lss tells it to 
do) but in BL3 light grey on black in console mode (as it should according 
to lynx.lss).

Can one start a console program in X without going through rxvt/xterm?

Sindi