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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > How do I start an application in ~/.xinitrc?  
> 
> ~/.xinitrc is the standard startup file for your X desktop.
> Every application you list in ~/.xinitrc will automatically
> appear on your screen when you startx.  
> 
> > Do I need to edit .xinitrc every time I want to start an 
> > application?  
> 
> No, you can start an application anytime from an xterm.  
> Or you can start all your applications in ~/.xinitrc and 
> page between them.

Could I instead put four rxvt's into .xinitrc and start whatever 
applications I wanted from them, using Alt-Tab to go between the rxvt's?

> > I hit the Enter key to get rxvt (xterm).  
> > I get an rxvt window. I type e3pi test.  
> > The X is in that window so I can use it (without a mouse).  
> > I can type, backspace and delete 
> > (after loading my own xmodmap for 84-key keyboard), 
Without loading xmodmap.84 I could still type, and there was no cursor.

> 
> I didn't do that.  It is not necessary.  The backspace
> and delete work fine as is.
On an XT keyboard the arrow keys and del don't work.
> 
> > but there is no cursor.  
> 
> My cursor is fine.  The problem is with your 84-key keyboard
> and/or your use of xmodmap.

I had the problem before fixing the keyboard map.  How would my keyboard
affect the cursor?  On this computer with AT keyboard, no xmodmap run, and
BL3-00 I also have no cursor when using e3pi in X but the arrow keys work
okay.  I recall your changed terminal emulation or something in bl3-01 - 
should that have fixed my cursor problem?

> > I will try making rxvt full-screen.  
> 
> The following should be about right for 800x600 screen:
> -----------------------------
> rxvt -fn 9x15 -geometry 87x38
> -----------------------------
> 
> The following should be about right for 640x480 screen:
> -----------------------------
> rxvt -fn 9x15 -geometry 69x30
> -----------------------------


I edited menu.sh and removed -popup, and added an xterm/rxvt line above
the existing one and identical to it except for 87x38.
I typed startx and the menu now includes ONLY xterm and a white blank 
space below it that I can arrow to.  What might I have 
done wrong to mess up the menu?   Putting back -popup does not help.
...
exec MENU -teleport                     \
        'xterm ...87x38 ...             \
        'xterm ...                      \


I hit the Enter key and got a full-screen rxvt at 800 resolution.
Without -popup, Alt-Tab toggles the menu to the foreground.


> > Lynx won't show images in console mode in BL3, it needs 
> > X for that (xli).
> 
> lynx has no inbuilt ability to display graphics.  It relies
> on an external application which then displays in either SVGAlib 
> or X (depending on which application).

zgv does not use either, it uses a bunch of other libraries.  I think I 
have that working now with lynx in BL2.  Most of my video cards don't
work with seejpeg, which uses svgalib.

> 
> > BL3 does not have the bold fonts needed for pine/lynx in X.
> 
> Exactly which font do you need?  
> What is happening now?  Do you get a non-bold rendition?
> Or nothing at all?

non-bold.  I will check this out more some other time after playing with 
swm.  In lynx the links are supposed to appear bold.  I have numbered them 
so I can find them when they are not bold.  Another solution might be to 
use colors in lynx.  I omitted lynx.lss to save space, and that is 
probably what provides the colors.  (I prefer mono).  

I could try adding 9x15 bold font.  Will see what I have in BL2.