Re: [MiNT] X magic

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@hal.fishpool.com>]

> > Has anyone ever managed to get the X-11 package from KGMD to work
> > on a 4 MB ST machine?  
> 
> Wow, Here we have a man with guts. ;-)

*grin*

> > It only seems to work if I use xinit, but
> 
> Do you want to say that X starts up at all?  Phew, I wouldn't have
> thought so.  But even if X runs, can you launch an application?
> I wonder how you want to run xterm if bash already consumes more
> than half a meg of RAM...

X *does* start, if I invoke xinit, yes, but it's pretty spartan.

> > it fails if I use startx:  it says fvwm and xclock are not found.
> 
> startx is a shell-script (for the location try "which startx").  
> Put "set -x" at the beginning and you should see where it fails.

OK... let's see...

> > Any hints?
> 
> If fvwm and xclock exist ("find / -name fvwm -print") you
> probably haven't to set up your $PATH correctly.  Put the
> X-bin-directory in your $PATH.  

I tried that already...

> Then, with 4 meg you shouldn't use fvwm as your window manager.
> Try a less memory-expensive. 

Were any other ones ever ported?

> (i.e. they all end in "wm"). Pick the smallest and choose 
> this one.  Then you have a chance that it leaves you enough
> memory to run some small apps.

Hopefully... :)

> BTW, the MiNT kernel contains "experimental" support for
> three-button mice.  Are there any three-button mice available 
> for the Atari mouse port?

Yep.  3-button version of the Atari mouse, initially designed
for the SRV package Atari never released.  B & C Electronics
has a few of them in stock, apparently.

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