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

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sindi keesan" <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
>
> > > 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.
>
> Xset is a little tool which lets you change X server settings while
> the server is running. The BL3 Abiword uses it to set up its fonts.

xset for BL2 is in xbin.tgz of SW7.1.  I only installed a few pieces of 
xbin.tgz, not including xkill, xeyes, xcalc, xterm or showfont either. 
This helped cut X down from 10MB.

I needed from xbin.tgz rxvt and libICE libX11 libSM libXext libXmu libXp 
libXpm libXt totalling about 1.5M.