Re: One problem; one (probably dumb) question...
Re: One problem; one (probably dumb) question...
- Subject: Re: One problem; one (probably dumb) question...
- From: William Julien <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:04:37 -0700
On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 07:18 AM, Kevin Buterbaugh wrote:
Greetings All,
First time posting to this list by a long-time Unix system
administrator who has recently converted to the Mac (and loving it!).
I am running Apple's X11 beta 3 under MacOS X 10.2.5 on a 450
MHz G3
tower (beggars can't be choosers and besides, my request for one of the
new 17" PowerBooks hasn't been approved yet) with 640 MB RAM. I am
also
using the trial version of CodeTek's virtual desktop. I'm using two
virtual desktops; one for my "office" apps (i.e. Lotus Notes, Mozilla,
and
M$ Office) and one for my X11 apps.
I have edited my .xinitrc file to start up 10 xterms, xlogo, and
xeyes when I launch X11 (I'm using the quartz-wm). The problem I am
having is that on 3 separate occasions in the last week, one of my apps
has disappeared. Twice it was one of my xterms, once it was xlogo. On
all 3 occasions, the app was running fine, I switched to my "office"
virtual window, sometime later I switched back to my X11 virtual
window,
and the app was simply gone. Has anybody else seen this?
I'm using CodeTek's virtual desktop. I did have a problem in beta 2
with X apps "disappearing", but it seems to have gone away in beta 3.
(By the way, I use CDE on my spark at work!) One problem that still
remains is that X apps appear to "freeze" if moved from one virtual
desktop to another. I can only run X apps in a single desktop.
I don't start apps in my .xinitrc. Instead, I have written a little
applescript to
start up X (if necessary) and start an xterm which sits on my dock. If
an xterm is already running on another desktop, the new xterm works,
but the ones on other desktops freeze, until I exit the second
instance. Moral: X only works in one desktop (sigh).
I wish I knew to whom I should complain.
tell application "X11"
activate
end tell
do shell script "export DISPLAY=:0 ; cd $HOME; /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
-title callisto -j -ls -sb -sl 1000 &"
My only other remaining gripe is that apples "focus follows mouse" and
"click to raise" don't work very well in apples X. On all my other
systems, (irix, solaris, linux...) I have "focus follows mouse" (which
works is beta 3 -- thank you!) but on all my other systems, click to
raise is activated only on decoration, and not on the window contents.
This means I can select text in a background window and paste it into
the foreground window. You can't do this in Apples X11. Any click on a
window, anywhere, will bring it to the foreground. Not good.
My probably very dumb question is ... how do I change the font
size
in my xterm window? I've got a 21 inch ViewSonic monitor and poor
eyesight, so I'd like to make the font bigger. I'm used to CDE (yeah,
Aqua is a *slight* improvement over CDE <grin>), where it was an
option on
the dtterm window. I know there has to be something very simple that
I'm
overlooking, but I've read the man page for xterm 3 times and can't
find
it. The man page references a "font menu," but how do I activate it?
Would someone mind to make me feel stupid by pointing out what I've
overlooked? Thank you <grin>.
Others have posted how to get the font menu. But, I want the "default"
to be my own setup. Fortunately, the $HOME/.Xdefaults work on apples X
just like they do on solaris and linux.
The following is what I have in my powerbook's .Xdefaults or XTerm. I
like a nice large font.
-->cat .Xdefaults
!
! xterm
!
XTerm*VT100*translations: #override \
<KeyPress> BackSpace : string(0x08)\n\
<KeyPress> Delete : string(0x7f)\n
XTerm*Tek*background: MintCream
XTerm*jumpScroll: on
XTerm*pointerShape: arrow
XTerm*cursorColorBackground: blue
XTerm*font: *-fixed-*-*-*-20-*
XTerm*boldFont: *-fixed-*-*-*-20-*
XTerm*scrollKey: on
XTerm*foreground: black
XTerm*pointerColor: navyblue
XTerm*pointerColorBackground: White
XTerm*background: PaleTurquoise
XTerm*scrollBar: on
XTerm*borderColor: RoyalBlue
XTerm*highlight: RoyalBlue
XTerm*saveLines: 500
XTerm*loginShell: on
XTerm*cursorColor: black
XTerm*vt100*geometry: 80x36
I do an xrdb merge in my .xinitrc, But I'm not sure it is necessary.
-->cat .xinitrc
#!/bin/ksh
#
# Quartz startup script
#
###
xhost +mink
xhost +europa
xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults
exec /usr/X11R6/bin/quartz-wm
William Julien
email@hidden
==================================
Kevin Buterbaugh - Systems Engineer
LifeWay - www.lifeway.com
"Using CPU clock speed to say that one computer is faster than another
is
like using engine RPM's to say that one car is faster than another."
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