02-11-2002
Reverse Display
I need to display a line in an xterm window but i want to revese the colors so that the background color becomes the foreground color and the foreground color the background color. I want to do this as part of ksh script.
Can somebody tell me how to do this ?
Thanks,
Abu.
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xeyes
XEYES(1) General Commands Manual XEYES(1)
NAME
xeyes - a follow the mouse X demo
SYNOPSIS
xeyes [-option ...]
DESCRIPTION
Xeyes watches what you do and reports to the Boss.
OPTIONS
-fg foreground color
choose a different color for the pupil of the eyes.
-bg background color
choose a different color for the background.
-outline outline color
choose a different color for the outline of the eyes.
-center center color
choose a different color for the center of the eyes.
-backing { WhenMapped Always NotUseful }
selects an appropriate level of backing store.
-geometry geometry
define the initial window geometry; see X(7).
-display display
specify the display to use; see X(7).
-bd border color
choose a different color for the window border.
-bw border width
choose a different width for the window border.
-shape uses the SHAPE extension to shape the window. This is the default.
+shape Disables uses the SHAPE extension to shape the window.
SEE ALSO
X(7), X Toolkit documentation
See X(7) for a full statement of rights and permissions.
AUTHOR
Keith Packard, MIT X Consortium
Copied from the NeWS version written (apparently) by Jeremy Huxtable as seen at SIGGRAPH '88
XFree86 Version 4.7.0 XEYES(1)