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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Reverse Display Post 15150 by marcose on Monday 11th of February 2002 11:36:39 AM
Old 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(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)
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