Re: X11 article, for review (take 2)
Re: X11 article, for review (take 2)
- Subject: Re: X11 article, for review (take 2)
- From: Rich Morin <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 10:51:58 -0800
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SL>It would be nice to see your Unix commands also "translated" to
SL>sh/ksh/bash, since that's what .xinitrc is written in.
More to the point, this would help the folks that use bash as their
interactive shell. I'm not a bash user, so the following may be
incorrect. Help?
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If I were a bash(1) user, I might put something like the following
into my ~/.bash_login file, instead:
export $MANPATH
MANPATH="${MANPATH:-`manpath`}:/usr/X11R6/man"
PATH="${PATH}:/usr/X11R6/man"
alias cfcl='ssh -X cfcl'
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SL>Describe open_X11.
Describe it? I've never even heard of it (and neither has Google). Help?
SL>I'd also describe xterm and some of its options more fully, particularly
SL>how to add scrollbars and set a scrollback length. Maybe.
My objective is to _avoid_ using xterm, so I haven't got a lot of interest
in teaching folks how to write stuff like:
xterm -bg 'pink' -geometry =80x60 -ls -sb -rightbar -si -sl 1000 -j
SL>Finally, I'd expand the fink note and at least give an overview of the
SL>sorts of useful programs that might be found.
These (xterm and Fink) are two good ideas for complete articles; I can't
see trying to cram them into this piece. xterm is a pretty complicated
beastie; as discussion in the list has shown, there's also quite a bit of
Fink-specific information that could (and should) be covered.
JE>It's not actually Terminal that Emacs will try to talk to,
JE>it's the X server (it doesn't matter what program happens to be
JE>displaying stdout; the connection to X goes over a network socket).
Thanks, fixed.
-r
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