HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 23:51:58 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) FrontPage/4.0.4.3 Last-Modified: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 20:32:29 GMT ETag: "52-bd5-3a0c5b5d" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 3029 Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain Here it is, Beautiful X-Windows for your NeXT! This README contains general information about McGill University's Mouse-X (as the folks on the Usenet have christened it) and then some "get-up and going" pointers for those lucky people (really!) who have never had to touch X before. GENERAL INFORMAION To install X 1. Login as root. 2. Double click on the McGill-X.pkg file. 3. Click Install. 4. Tell the installer to place X in either ~/Apps or /LocalApps *5. (IMPORTANT!) select /dev/vid0 in your file viewer. get up an inspector and change the permissions so that Group an Other have write permissions. **6. place a .xinitrc file in the home directory of every user who will run X (i.e., you, the me account, a demo account, the root account) Here are two example files. You would do just fine cutting and pasting one of them into an edit document and saving it into the appropriate home directories: Example 1: The minimum The minimum gives you a small shell and a window manager ---->8 cut here 8<---- xterm -geometry 60x25+500+250 -title Shell -n Shell-iconic -fn courB14 -rv & exec vtwm ---->8 cut here 8<---- Example 2: IMHO the Maximum The IMHO Maximum gives you a small shell, a window manager, and the only reason to run X in the first place, XHextris (hey, all you folks who are working on new versions of Tetris, how's about doing Hextris instead so I can clean X off of my hard-drive?) ---->8 cut here 8<---- /usr/bin/X11/games/xhextris -geometry 30x5+10+5 & xterm -geometry 60x25+500+250 -title Shell -n Shell-iconic -fn courB14 -rv & exec vtwm ---->8 cut here 8<---- How to Use McGill Mouse-X Starting it up: To fire up X, just double click on the X icon and wait (a while if, like me, you still have an 030 :-) Switching from X to NextStep and back: X takes over the whole screen, to switch to NextStep, hit command-command-delete. To switch back to NextStep, double-click to X icon. Copy and Paste: The package includes XNextPaste which enables you cut and paste between X and NextStep. In X, highlighting text with the mouse automatically does a copy. To paste in X, click the middle mouse button (on our system, that means both buttons at once). Try it. It works. Killing X: IMPORTANT -- DO NOT KILL X FROM THE WORKSPACE. That only kills the little program that started X, all the big ugly programs that are the essence of X will still be running. To exit X, switch to X, and with the mouse outside of any windows, press the left mouse button and drag to "Exit" Pitfalls and Traps: 1. It takes over the whole screen! 2. On an 030, its a little slow. 3. TWM (the window manager) is a little flaky. If ever you can't get the main TWM menu (the one with exit on it) to come up and you can't move windows by grabbing their title bars, hold the command key and click (left button) a few times in any window. This will fix it. 4. The man pages are by default not linked into /usr/man . If you want the man pages, you can link them from /usr/local/X11R4/usr/man enjoy