Re: Change default value of system variable?

["Liam E. Gumley" <Liam.Gumley(at)ssec.wisc.edu>]

"Kenneth P. Bowman" wrote:
> Thanks for nothin' everybody!  I *know* I can set the stupid background
> and foreground colors explicitly!  I'm not a newbie!  All I want to do
> is set the stinkin' program so that whenever I pop up a window, even if
> I'm just doodlin' around at the command prompt, it doesn't default to
> that ugly white on black thing.

How about including this in your startup file:

tvlct, 255B, 255B, 255B, 0
tvlct, 0B, 0B, 0B, !d.table_size - 1
device, decomposed=0

You should get black on a white background by default:

plot, indgen(10)

Cheers,
Liam.
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley