What terminal program are you using? If you don't know, what desktop are you using?
If it's gnome-terminal, you can change colors. Menu: edit/current_profile tab: colors It used to be (long long ago) you could fix this stuff in ~/.Xdefaults but evidently that worked too well and everybody decided to switch to gui based configurations. The result is that every time you do an install rather than installing a single file to fix the colors, now you have to go thru the same stupid menus. Fixing these things in menus can be very labor intensive. -- Allen Brown abrown at peak.org http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/ Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ---H.L.Mencken > It's not that bad...everything is working in terms of the dual displays > and OpenGL functionality BUT, like I said, open a terminal and it's > window is all white. It's working, because I can type in a command and > it'll execute; I just can't see what I'm typing. > > There are other little anomalies in opening a window. Such as the > update window puts up a window to ask for your password. That's blank > also, but I can see the mouse cursor change were the password field > is. > > Like I said, I had this all working under Fedora Core 11, I just ran > into the problem of using suspend...that's another issue entirely. I > don't need to suspend the system, but I would like to use dual monitors. > > I've got an another system with an EN8400GS card waiting for this issue > to be resolved. If FC 11 will do it, so be it... > > Ubuntu has ease of use in a lot of areas. I was hoping to use just one > distro or the the other. > > Brian > > > On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 12:49 -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: >> Is this related to your woes? "CANTFIX" :( >> http://bugs.gentoo.org/111833 >> >> I wanted to make sure you've come across >> http://lunapark6.com/dual-head-configuration-with-different-resolutions-per-screen-linux.html >> or similar google results... >> that is, http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-7938.html >> or even http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-75149.html >> (but the glawing .com site they mention does not seem to have the >> topic any more) >> >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:55 AM, BB <[email protected]> wrote: >> No, I like Ubuntu...I'm going to do a fresh install and see if >> it's only >> the Twinview feature. maybe I'll epoxy over the VGA so I'll >> stop >> playing with dual monitors. I don't really need it...like the >> mountain...it's just there. >> >> >> On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 11:42 -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: >> > No likey Ubuntu? Sorry, I don't [yet] have access to any >> recent >> > nvidia dual-display hardware (but actually, expect to soon, >> under >> > ubuntu studio, a 9500gt whee)... >> > >> > On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:36 AM, BB <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I got a much more stable nVidia driver experience on >> Fedora >> > 11, with the >> > official nVidia driver. >> > >> > I had it all working under FC 11 then I blew-up my >> system >> > playing with >> > suspend / hibernate. >> > >> > I read that Tux on Ice allows the user to suspend. >> > >> > Brian >> > >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > EUGLUG mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
