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- SUBMISSION: DaggeX 1.0b
- TOPIC: X11R5 Server for Amiga
- KEYWORD: Network, X11, RTG
- AUTHOR: Kari 'Dagge' Mettinen, Leonard 'Vinsci' NorrgÄrd
- VERSION: 1.0b (Beta)
- STATUS: Freeware
- SIZE: 12MB
- REQUIREMENTS: OS 2.04 or above, 4MB RAM, possible network adaptors
- SPECIAL: Works with Picasso II gfx board
- MAINTAINER: Markus Illenseer, markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- ARTICLE:
-
- [Please do also read docs/DaggeX.review]
-
- General Installation:
-
- There is no need for Installation!
-
- If you have found this version of DaggeX on the 'Meeting Pearls'-CD-ROM
- archive, then it is possible to start DaggeX 'out of the box' with no
- further needs (at least that's what i hope) of installation.
-
- The supplied 'startx' script is available as script for normal
- ECS/AGA use (WB/KS 2.1 or above required for Screenmode-Requester)
- or for Picasso-II graphics board ('startx.picasso').
-
- If you intend to use DaggeX on a daily issue, then it might be better
- to copy the entire directory to your harddisk and copy the first block
- of the startx-script to your S:User-Startup script.
-
- WB 2.04 USERS:
-
- It is possible to run DaggeX on WB/KS 2.04 without the required asl.library
- for the Screenmode requester.
-
- You _must_ change the StartX-script though, to start DaggeX with some
- new options:
-
- DaggeX -native 19024 -height someHeight -width someWidth
-
- Whereas '19024' is a ScreenMode-ID which can be locked up in the Screenmode-
- ID table in 'Sys:WBStartup/modenames.info' (use 'Information' to look them
- up).
-
- Fonts:
-
- The supplied X11 fonts are only an extract of the freely available fonts
- for X11. X11 can - as the Amiga does - calculate required fontsizes from
- a basic size. Unfortunatly not all clients do request such fonts and
- sometimes they then only fallback to ugly fonts. You can copy or assign
- X11 font archives and use them together with DaggeX. Don't forget to copy
- the 'fonts.dir' and 'fonts.alias' files!
-
- Network:
-
- Troughout this DaggeX distribution we don't need any network support.
-
- All clients supplied do run on the local machine with no further network
- connections.
-
- To tell the clients to use the local machine, the environment variable
- 'DISPLAY' has to be set to 'local:0.0': 'Set DISPLAY local:0.0'
- Due to some Unix-features it is required to use uppercase name DISPLAY!
-
- If you intend to use DaggeX in a network, you need a TCP/IP based network
- stack protocoll such as AmiTCP or AS225R2 (developers only) and a working
- SANA-II device for your network hardware, such as 2065.device for the
- A2065 ethernet card or SLIP.device for a serial line connection.
-
- It is not intended to describe the detailed process about how to connect
- to a remote machine. Please do refer to the original DaggeX-documentation
- to see how to authorize remote clients to connect to your DaggeX.
-
- One hint: In case of desperate tries, try to use the DaggeX option -ac,
- to allow all machines in the connected network (thus - if you are connected
- to the internet - allow global distorted machines to connect to you) access
- to your DaggeX.
-
- Warning: A wrongly installed authorisation will allow to sneak the contents
- of your screen or to remotely display the output of programms on your screen,
- but also to hack the mouse- and keyboard-events on your machine!
-
- Programmer:
-
- If you have the elan and the motivation, you can try to port X11
- applications to the Amiga. All you need is the GCC (Gnu C-Compiler for Amiga),
- the ixemul.library and the X11 libraries. In the drawer 'Programmer' you
- will find the most recent static X11 Link-libraries.
-
-
- Markus Illenseer
- markus@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- 6/1/1994
-