From: Lee Penn  <lee@dlpco.dlpco.COM>
Subject: Re: SCO X11R4 EFS and MultiScreens
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Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 15:00:40 GMT
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>In article <9208131814.aa12064@dlpco.dlpco.COM> lee@dlpco.dlpco.COM (Lee Penn) writes:
>>In general, I like the idea of a panning server operating on a 
>>much larger virtual screen surface far better than the 
>>multiscreen concept.  With this, multiscreen goes away totally.

>If you need a panning server, you probably don't have a big enough
>screen.  I find that running at 1024x768 works well; you can fit two
>80-column xterms horizontally and two 24-line xterms vertically, for a
>total of four simultaneously fully-visible 80x24 xterms.  Note that
>you may have to play with the Motif border widths to do this; IMHO the
>stock widths are much too big for anything resembling real use.  Also,
>you'll want to get rid of the stupid icon box, which takes up a lot of
>screen space for no apparent purpose.  Setting the keyboard focus
>policy to "pointer" instead of "explicit" makes things easier, too,
>since you then just have to move the mouse pointer into a window to
>give it the keyboard focus.  Since you don't have to click on the
>window, you don't have to raise the window, and can thus type in a
>partially-obscured window.  Here is my set of X resource settings for
>mwm, in case you want a few hints:

>Mwm*keyboardFocusPolicy:        pointer
>Mwm*focusAutoRaise:             false
>Mwm*fadeNormalIcon:             true
>Mwm*useIconBox:                 false
>Mwm*client*activeBackground:    cyan3
>Mwm*client*activeForeground:    black
>Mwm*client*activeTopShadowColor: cyan1
>Mwm*client*activeBottomShadowColor: black
>Mwm*icon*activeBackground:      cyan3
>Mwm*icon*activeForeground:      black
>Mwm*icon*activeTopShadowColor:  cyan1
>Mwm*icon*activeBottomShadowColor: black
>Mwm*interactivePlacement:       true
>Mwm*resizeBorderWidth:          3
>Mwm*showFeedback:               all
>Mwm*XTerm*iconImage:            terminal
>Mwm*Scoterm*iconImage:          terminal

>Also, try adding a line like this to your .startxrc or .xinitrc:

>xterm -name root -title root -iconic -exec su &

>This will start up an xterm, iconized, with a "su" process running
>instead of a normal shell.  Just type in the root password, and you've
>got a window running as root.  The -name and -title flags set the
>window name to "root", so you can distinguish it from your other
>xterms.  I usually keep one of these sitting around on the desktop
>ready for use; an icon at the bottom of the screen doesn't take up
>that much space.

>I've tried running with a bigger virtual root window than my physical
>root window, and didn't like it in the least.  At best, you wind up
>panning around the screen more than you'd like to, because the
>information you want is always just a little bit off the the left, or
>up top, or...At worst, a lot of programs accidentally make their
>screen bigger than it should be because they assume your display is
>bigger than it is.

>-- 
>Marc Unangst                | Real men don't make backups.  Real men never
>mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us   | accidentally delete files that they're going
>                            | to need later.

Marc:  You've not had the experience of running Micro Lite's 
Rocket Fuel X server with the GXI #9 card.  I have.  It can 
provide a 1024x1024 window into a 2048x1024 desk space.  As you 
move the mouse, the window slides around.  When using Frame 
Maker, it is fantastic as you can keep all the tools unobscured 
and ready for use.

I am running a 20" monitor on my desk and a 17" at the console.  
Actual monitor size is not an issue.

However... I really appreciate your suggestions on the default 
settings.  I will definitely try them as they look like they are 
very useful ideas.  Thanx.

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Lee Penn,  DLP Technologies, Inc.                     Voice: 513 232-7791
SCO Advanced Product Center                           FAX: (513) 232-7801
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Cincinnati, OH  45230-4344                           email: lee@dlpco.COM

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