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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > I added to the menu xv, xpdf, gs, and changed xterm to rxvt on the
> > first line.  I think I would need to change it in the control panel
> > menu as well in order to get that submenu (it is it not there at
> > all) and to install clock and calculator and magnify to see the
> > utilities submenu.  What does xkill do?
>
> Not much. By default, it initially changes the mouse cursor. If you
> click on a window, the application which controls it is killed. The
> original mouse cursor is restored after you kill one program, and xkill
> shuts itself down.

I tend to exit X programs with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.  Simpler to remember.


> > I can chroot to bl3 and run X with icewm (from a vt of Bl2) and
> > hopefully use Abiword that way since the BL2 version won't work
> > with Xvesa.
>
> The BL3 Abiword doesn't run on BL2? Even if you have xset?

What is xset?  BL3 Abiword requires a rather odd location of fonts and I 
don't want to move them around now that I have Xvesa working in BL2.  The 
Abiword Steven compiled for BL2 won't work with Xvesa.  I have not 
actually used Abiword after testing it.  I just need some way to read 
WORD files and none of the convertors/importers I tried including Abiword 
got the format quite right and I need to preserve formats of what people 
send to translate.  So I am stuck with Win98 and their viewer, unless I 
want to ask people to print and scan the file.  Or MS decides to provide a 
free linux WORD viewer.

> > Winoptions is still there and has something to do with java, xload,
> > and mozilla and xeyes.  Is it relevant to BL3?  What is fte?
>
> No idea.
>
> David
> --

The current maintainer of netpbm has been really helpful, and has even 
added to some of the man pages in response to my questions.  He got into 
this sort of by accident when one of the programs was broken.  I will soon 
be posting a collection of the programs I would like to use from netpbm, 
unless anyone else has requests.  Mostly just ways to resize and convert 
and print common image formats.