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Re: blink <-> highlight background
From: |
Frank Heckenbach |
Subject: |
Re: blink <-> highlight background |
Date: |
Wed, 7 Nov 2001 00:26:14 +0100 |
On 6 Nov 2001, Matthias Leonhardt wrote:
> Hello ncurses-developers,
>
> I have a problem with highlighting backgrounds in my application. I set
> the A_BLINK bit to get the highlighted backgrounds enabled. But the text
> with set A_BLINK-bit at the background is shown in 3 different modi:
>
> - highlighted as needed (in Eterm) -> ok
> - normal without highlight or blink (in Xterm) -> ok, but not nice
> - blinking (in linux-console) -> not ok
(OT) That's a property of VGA cards, not related to curses. If you
use SVGATextMode, the `option "16color"' will switch the behaviour
on the Linux console. Don't know about xterm -- maybe it has some
option, maybe it just doesn't support it (but you have the sources,
so you can change it :-).
Frank
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