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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

Hi Steven,

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 11:19:33 +1200
3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Ron Clarke wrote:
> >
> > How do you shut the damn thing off once it is running ?  
> 
> Press Q.  I think ESC works too.

   NOW it works.  It didn't the first time I ran it.      :)
 
> > Alt+tab, then logout ?
> 
> To shutdown X, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE always works.  Otherwise,
> right-click mouse and click on the menu.

   But (CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE) didn't work while MagicPoint was running.
 
> > Where would I look for the manual for this presentation prog ?
> 
> man mgp

   Yep, saw that.  Wasn't what I meant.  That just gives the tags for use 
with mgp.
What do we call the file it is supposed to run - anything we like ?
I see that you have used demo.mpg 

> > Also, it accesses my other machine (Lois, running thttpd under BL2.1) 
> 
> BTW, thttpd is included in BL3.
>
> > with links just fine.  But how does one get to run Lois' applications 
> > from BL3 on Clark ?   
> 
> You can transfer files by downloading from links or wget.

   Yes, I worked out how to do that.

> But actually running applications, while they are sitting on 
> another system, is a bit more complicated.
> 
> > Do I need to install and configure the NFS ?
> 
> That is one way of doing it.  However, I removed the built-in
> NFS capability from the BL3 kernel to save space.  You would 
> need to do three insmods to get the BL3 kernel to mount a remote
> NFS partition.  Unfortunately, the necessary modules for that
> are not included with BL3 (they are quite large), so you would
> first have to download them.
> 
> But, a simpler option is available.  Just startxt on clark.
> Then on lois, export an xterm (or wm):
> ----------------------
> export DISPLAY=clark:0
> xterm &
> ----------------------
> Then clark will be able to run anything on lois from that xterm.

    Yes, it worked !     :)

    Didn't run everything, but !  When I tried QV, that showed up on lois' 
screen and would only run from lois' keyboard.  Interesting !
 
> If you are unhappy about the window/font size of the xterm that
> arrives on clark, use -font and -geometry parameters for that
> xterm command (the & goes at the end) or simply send a wm:
> ----------------------
> export DISPLAY=clark:0
> icewm &
> ----------------------

  Yes, icewm works too !     I might just get a few (or a lot of) miles out 
of this.   :)

  I also managed to get BL3.1 to access my Peanut Linux (also installed on a 
partition on the lois machine). 
I was able to run MC OK, and to load enlightenment which was then only 
controllable from lois' 
keyboard and displayed on lois' monitor. Seems like there is a limit as to 
what will run on
clark's monitor (where BL31 is).

Regards,
         Ron  

-- 
Ron Clarke 
AUSREG Consultancy      http://www.valylink.net.au/~ausreg/index.html
Tadpole Tunes           http://tadpole.mytunebook.de/
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