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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.bc.net!unixg.ubc.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!news.agtac.net!news.telusplanet.net!news From: james earl <james_earl@telusplanet.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: No text in xfree86?? Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 08:52:20 +0000 Organization: Abc Lines: 16 Message-ID: <327322C4.2781E494@telusplanet.net> References: <01bbc22a$8e052f20$27366d81@masscomp> NNTP-Posting-Host: ltbrpx02-port-37.agt.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Ernest Hymel wrote: > > The problem: no text in the console or xterm windows!! I have a cursor that > moves with my mouse, and if I move to the console I can type commands that > get run (like exit) with no problem. I can see lines here and there that > indicate typing activity, but I can't see the actual text. If I click a > mouse button (any of the three), the familiar menus appear, complete with > text, but when I move the cursor down to any item, the text disappears for > that item. > > What's going on?? Thanks in advance. Please email if you also post; the > mail server on campus is flaky with this newsgroup for some reason. I know this may sound stupid, but it's worth a try: you may want to make sure the foreground color isn't the same as the background. You can test this out simply by using the -bg and -fg parameters for xterm.