diff --git a/inxi b/inxi
index 37093d1..54d2156 100755
--- a/inxi
+++ b/inxi
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 ########################################################################
 ####  Script Name: inxi
-####  version: 0.1.34
+####  version: 0.1.35
 ####  Date: October 29 2008
 ########################################################################
 ####  inxi is a fork of infobash, the original bash sys info script by locsmif
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@
 ########################################################################
 
 ## Variable initializations: null values
+COLOR_SCHEME_SET=''
+CSCHEME=''
 DISTRO=''
 DISTRO_FILE=''
 A_DISTRO_GLOB=''
@@ -64,6 +66,7 @@ LSPCI=$( lspci -v | awk '{ gsub(/\(prog-if[^)]*\)/,""); print }' )
 NO_CPU_COUNT=0	# Wether or not the string "dual" or similar is found in cpuinfo output. If so, avoid dups.
 PARAMETER_LIMIT=30	# This is a variable that controls how many parameters infobash will parse in a /proc/<pid>/cmdline file before stopping.
 RUNLVL=0 # just setting this to 0 to initialize and avoid test errors
+SCHEME=0 # set default scheme
 SHOW_HOST=1	# Set this to 0 to avoid printing the hostname 
 SHOW_IRC=2	# SHOW_IRC=1 to avoid showing the irc client version number, or SHOW_IRC=0 to disable client information completely.
 VERBOSITY_LEVEL=0		# Verbosity level defaults to 0, this can also be set with -v, -v2, -v3, etc as a parameter.
@@ -340,7 +343,7 @@ set_color_scheme()
 	C1="${!script_colors[0]}"
 	C2="${!script_colors[1]}"
 	CN="${!script_colors[2]}"
-	((CSCHEME++)) ## note: why is this? ##
+	# ((CSCHEME++)) ## note: why is this? ##
 }
 
 # Parse the null separated commandline under /proc/<pid passed in $1>/cmdline
@@ -416,7 +419,8 @@ get_parameters()
 		[0-9]|[0-9][0-9])
 			# these will need to be converted to standard type options
 			echo "$1" | grep -q '^[0-9][0-9]\?$' || error_handler 3 "$1"
-			if ! ((CSCHEME))
+			COLOR_SCHEME_SET='true'
+			if [ -z "$CSCHEME" ]
 			then
 				set_color_scheme "$1"
 			fi
@@ -484,7 +488,7 @@ get_start_source()
 		IRC_CLIENT="Shell"
 		unset IRC_CLIENT_VERSION
 		IBSHELL=1
-	elif [[ -n $PPID && -f /proc/$PPID/exe ]]
+	elif [ -n "$PPID" -a -f "/proc/$PPID/exe" ]
 	then
 		irc_client_path=$( readlink /proc/$PPID/exe )
 		# this handles the problem with konversation reporting itself as perl, which was missed because
@@ -1390,7 +1394,7 @@ fi
 get_parameters "$@"
 
 # If no colorscheme was set in the parameter handling routine, then set the default scheme
-if [ "$CSCHEME" -eq 0 ]
+if [ "$COLOR_SCHEME_SET" != 'true' ]
 then
 	set_color_scheme "$DEFAULT_SCHEME"
 fi