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From: Frank Shute <frank@shute.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Sysinstall
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On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 08:32:50PM +0200, borish@gmx.de wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I have the following prblem with sysinstall: when I run sysinstall inside  
> an xterm I find it very difficult to read the yellow font on the gray  
> background, which appears very light on my laptop LCD and also on an Eizo  
> LCD. Strangely, the gray is much darker if I run sysinstall from the  
> console outside X. Is there a way to make the gray darker when sysinstall  
> is run inside an xterm?
> 
> I'm running fbsd 7.
> 
> Best regards,
> Boris

Put this mapping in ~/.Xdefaults:

XTerm*VT100*translations: #override \
        <KeyPress>F6 : set-reverse-video(toggle)

Then:

$ xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults

Then press F6 to get a clearer sysinstall.


Regards,

-- 

 Frank 


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