This README contains general information about McGill University's Mouse-X (as the folks on
the Usenet have christened it) and then some "get-up and going" pointers for those lucky
people (really!) who have never had to touch X before.
GENERAL INFORMAION
To install X
1. Login as root.
2. Double click on the McGill-X.pkg file.
3. Click Install.
4. Tell the installer to place X in either ~/Apps or /LocalApps
*5. (IMPORTANT!) select /dev/vid0 in your file viewer. get up an inspector and change
the permissions so that Group an Other have write permissions.
**6. place a .xinitrc file in the home directory of every user who will run X (i.e.,
you, the me account, a demo account, the root account)
Here are two example files. You would do just fine cutting and pasting one of them into an
edit document and saving it into the appropriate home directories:
Example 1: The minimum
The minimum gives you a small shell and a window manager
Example 2: IMHO the Maximum
The IMHO Maximum gives you a small shell, a window manager, and the only reason to run X in
the first place, XHextris (hey, all you folks who are working on new versions of Tetris, how's
about doing Hextris instead so I can clean X off of my hard-drive?)
Starting it up: To fire up X, just double click on the X icon and wait (a while if, like me,
you still have an 030 :-)
Switching from X to NextStep and back: X takes over the whole screen, to switch to NextStep,
hit command-command-delete. To switch back to NextStep, double-click to X icon.
Copy and Paste: The package includes XNextPaste which enables you cut and paste between X and
NextStep. In X, highlighting text with the mouse automatically does a copy. To paste in X,
click the middle mouse button (on our system, that means both buttons at once). Try it. It
works.
Killing X: IMPORTANT -- DO NOT KILL X FROM THE WORKSPACE. That only kills the little program
that started X, all the big ugly programs that are the essence of X will still be running. To
exit X, switch to X, and with the mouse outside of any windows, press the left mouse button
and drag to "Exit"
Pitfalls and Traps:
1. It takes over the whole screen!
2. On an 030, its a little slow.
3. TWM (the window manager) is a little flaky. If ever you can't get the main TWM menu (the
one with exit on it) to come up and you can't move windows by grabbing their title bars, hold
the command key and click (left button) a few times in any window. This will fix it.
4. The man pages are by default not linked into /usr/man . If you want the man pages, you can
link them from /usr/local/X11R4/usr/man
