Subject: Re: X settings
To: Nico van Eikema Hommes <hommes@derioc1.organik.uni-erlangen.de>
From: Albert Carter <SilverMoonTiger@wizzard.tiac.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/13/1997 15:37:18
Ok what do I do about the scrolls and copy/paste if I have say only a
regular crappy ADB mouse that comes with the computer that has only one
button?

>     Hi Albert,
>
>>Ok I've tried to do this several times read the manuals and appearently
>>still can't get it right.  Whenever I start up X running startx it gives me
>>2 xterms a login and an xclock.  My problem is that both the login and the
>>first xterm window are too long they go way off the screen.  I have a 13"
>>Apple RGB monitor.  If anyone can help me out with setting this up
>>currectly so things don't just scroll off the screen it would be helpful.
>
>Put the part between the "=======" lines into a file called ".xinitrc", which
>should be in your homedirectory and you'll get a more pleasant setup (it is
>what I use on a 13" monitor).
>
>======================================================
>#!/bin/sh
># $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $
>
>userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
>usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
>sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
>sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
>
># merge in defaults and keymaps
>
>if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
>    xrdb -merge $sysresources
>fi
>
>if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
>    xmodmap $sysmodmap
>fi
>
>if [ -f $userresources ]; then
>    xrdb -merge $userresources
>fi
>
>if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
>    xmodmap $usermodmap
>fi
>
># start some nice programs
>
># this is to speed up the mouse with the GENERIC#29 kernel from -current
>xset m 6 2
>
># start the window manager. TWM is present by default, you'd have to
># install the other two. I like mlvwm: it looks like MacOS.
>
>twm &
># fvwm2 &
># mlvwm &
># uncomment this line or continue using your wristwatch :-)
># xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
>xterm -fn 6x10 -name "Xterm 2" -geometry 80x36+48+48 -sb &
>xterm -fn 6x10 -name "Xterm 1" -geometry 80x36+16+16 -sb &
>exec xterm -fn 6x10 -geometry 80x10+0+0 -name console -sb -iconic
>==========================================================================
>
>
>>Also there should be some way of setting up scroll bars as well as setting
>>up the ability to cut and paste in X.
>
>The xterms set up above have a scrollbar. Use the middle mouse button to
>move it. To copy: just select text by dragging over it with the left button
>pressed. The X system remembers the last selection. To paste: click with the
>middle mouse button in the window where you want it pasted.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>          Nico
>
>
>--
>  Dr. N.J.R. van Eikema Hommes     Computer-Chemie-Centrum
>  hommes@ccc.uni-erlangen.de       Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg
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