[rescue] X11 (was NeWS. Heck, maybe still is.)

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:34, gw wrote:
> >> Got any screenshots?
> >
> >Easy enough to make, as it happens; I have a program that snapshots
> > the framebuffer, below the level of X.  (xwd -root does not work
> > very well for this server; I conjecture it's got something to do
> > with the 8bpp/24bpp mismatch.  Never bothered me enough to make me
> > track the
> >
> >/~\ The ASCII				der Mouse
> >\ / Ribbon Campaign
> > X  Against HTML	       mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca
> >/ \ Email!	     7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39  4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
>
> I got your screen shot. I thought you didn't like reverse video? This
> gif is white text on a black background.

"Reverse video" is dark text on a light background, ie the opposite of 
what you typically get with a serial terminal.

Pat
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