From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 18 01:35:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA29202 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 01:35:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA29197 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 01:35:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) From: groggy@iname.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA00418; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:35:53 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 00:35:53 -0800 (AKDT) X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: curses, mc, and lynx In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > if i set my terminal to a certain color, > > And how are you doing that? vidcontrol ... > > it is reset to grey after running Lynx > > or Midnight Commander (probably any color > > terminal program). what is the best way > > to get around this - so i get my original > > color back when exiting one of these programs? > > Run the command you ran before to make it color. The programs you quote > reinitialize the terminal and clear out any existing settings. yes, i can do that. but it's a hassle. i guess i wish the programs would read the current settings and restore them so i don't have to mess with it everytime i launch one of those programs. or maybe freebsd could. i don't know enough to know which would be the most proper solution. i guess an alias or script could do it also. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message