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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ericom!lmfken
- From: lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se (Kenneth Osterberg)
- Subject: Re: Olwm (was Re: motif)
- Message-ID: <lmfken.724399813@bluese2>
- Sender: news@ericsson.se
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- Organization: Oy LM Ericsson Ab, Jorvas, Finland
- References: <A55780@HB.maus.de> <A56817@HB.maus.de> <1992Dec14.120315.1699@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 06:10:13 GMT
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- tjrc1@cus.cam.ac.uk (T.J.R. Cutts) writes:
-
- >I have olwm up and running on my Linux box. It works pretty well, though a
- >friend whose machine is a 386SX w. (I think) 4Mb RAM says it is unuseably slower
- >than twm. On my machine (486/33 w. 8Mb RAM and an S3 card) it doesn't appear to
- >be any slower. I guess you need a lot of memory... olwm does not support shared
- >libraries, and so soon tends to thrash your hard disk!
-
- Wait a few days, and it will! :-)
-
- >BTW, does anyone know how olwmslave works? I realise it's some sort of help
- >thing, but I can't find anything that'll tell me how to use it!
-
- Olwmslave is automatically started by olwm if it is in your path when olwm
- is started, (i.e when ~/.xinitrc is executed). Normally olwmslave does nothing,
- unless you point at something with your mouse and press the 'Help' key. When
- that happens, olwmslave will pop up a window and display a short description
- about what you were pointing at.
-
- The problem is here that PC keyboards do not have a help key a'la Sun, so
- you have to fiddle with your .xmodmap to assign a key (a function key, for
- instance) as Help. Try for instance the command
-
- xmodmap -e "keysym F1 = Help"
-
- and point the mouse on the rootwindow background, or a window border, and
- press F1.
-
- --
- Kenneth Osterberg lmfken@lmf.ericsson.se or lmfken@bluese1.ericsson.fi
-