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- * RiscBSD X11R6 Distribution *
- * Alpha Release *
- * Release Notes *
- * v4 16/8/95 *
- * *
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- Copyright (C) 1995 Robert Black (RiscBSD kernel team)
-
- Copyright (C) 1994 X Consortium
-
- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
- of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to
- deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the
- rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or
- sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
- furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
-
- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
- all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
-
- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
- X CONSORTIUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
- AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNEC-
- TION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
-
- Except as contained in this notice, the name of the X Consortium shall not
- be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other deal-
- ings in this Software without prior written authorization from the X Consor-
- tium.
-
- X Window System is a trademark of X Consortium, Inc.
-
- The above copyrights apply to the entire RiscBSD X Windows package.
-
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-
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. X Installation
- 3. Starting X
- 4. Known Problems & Bugs
-
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- Section 1. Introduction.
-
- Welcome to the RiscBSD distribution of X windows. This is an alpha version of
- the RiscBSD port of the X Window System. This release is being made due to
- popular demand and, as such, it is unfinished and has a lot of bugs. As the
- configuration used by imake has not been finalised there are no libraries or
- header-files in this release. There are also likely to be missing manual pages
- as I don't have enough disk space to build them.
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- Section 2. X Installation.
-
- The name of this section is slightly misleading because it doesn't tell you
- how to actually unpack the distribution onto your system. You should do this
- using inst in the usual manner. The installation installs all files relevant
- to X in the directory /usr/X11R6. To remove the X installation simply delete
- this directory.
-
- The directory structure of this X distribution is split into three parts:
-
- /usr/X11R6/bin - X binaries and support programs. Add this directory to
- your path.
-
- /usr/X11R6/lib - Configuration files, data files and fonts. The libraries
- have been deliberately omitted.
-
- /usr/X11R6/include - not a lot :-) This directory will eventually contain
- the include files necessary to compile new binaries.
-
- The whole package takes up about 45Mb of disk space. If you want to reduce
- this you can do so by removing fonts and binaries. If you remove anything
- else X is likely to break. The recommended minimal installation is:
-
- binaries:
-
- X - A symbolic link to Xarm.
-
- Xarm - The X server binary. You do not need this if you will
- not be displaying X locally. If you remove this you
- can remove all the fonts as well.
-
- xterm - A terminal window. If you delete this X won't be very
- useful unless you are running your applications on
- another host.
-
- twm - A window manager. You need to run this if you want to
- be able to move windows around.
-
- xrefresh - Redraws the screen if it gets corrupted. Remember that
- this is an alpha release.
-
- xconsole - If you run this then system messages will be put here.
- Otherwise they are likely to corrupt the display.
-
- xsetroot - You need this to be able to change the colour of the
- background. The default dithered background upsets
- some monitors.
-
- startx - Script to start X by calling xinit.
-
- xinit - Program to handle starting the X server.
-
- fonts:
-
- misc
-
- You can't delete the other font directories completely as X will look for
- the files font.alias and font.dir in them.
-
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- Section 3. Starting X.
-
- The simplest way to start X is to type 'startx' (after adding /usr/X11R6/bin
- to your path). The version number of the X server will be printed on the
- current virtual console. Immediately after this the console switches to
- console 8 (corresponding to alt+F9). This is the console used by X. If all
- is going well the screen will flash white and then be cleared to a graded
- blue-green display. From this point X takes about 30-40 seconds to start. Do
- not worry. This long delay is perfectly normal and is caused by RiscBSD's
- unoptimised floating point emulator.
-
- When X has started you will probably have an xterm at the top left of the
- screen. You can't move this around unless you run a window manager (eg twm).
- The easiest way to do this is to type 'twm &' in the xterm.
-
- The numeric keypad does not act as a numeric keypad but as an alternative to
- the mouse.
-
- You cannot switch virtual terminals from within X unless you disable the
- X keyboard driver first using <Print Screen>. Please note that there is
- currently no way to reenable the keyboard driver without restarting X.
-
- When you have finished using X you can shut it down by exiting from your
- original xterm. Alternatively you can press <Print Screen>, switch to a text
- console and kill the X server process.
-
- If the kernel panics the X server will appear to hang but alt+Fx will change
- virtual console.
-
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- Section 4. Known Problems & Bugs.
-
- The following are known problems with the X server. If you come across any
- more please mail them either to the list or to r.black@ic.ac.uk.
-
- 1. There is a black blob on the screen.
-
- This is the hardware cursor which currently doesn't always get turned off
- properly.
-
- 2. X doesn't work in non 8-bit modes.
-
- Correct. It isn't implemented yet.
-
- 3. The screen blanks whilst I'm typing.
-
- This is a known bug.
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