Re: Easy questions regarding Afterstep
David Mihm (davemann@ionet.net)
Sat, 16 May 1998 12:56:26 -0500 (CDT)
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Keith Alen Vance wrote:
> I have AfterStep installed and functioning. I installed 1.4.5.55N on
> Debian 1.3 sysetm with 2.0.33 kernel. I have a few questions about what I
> can do and how I should do it.
This is a development version...just so you know.
> My first question is why are my fonts in afterstep so funny looking. They
> are really fat letters that are not even legible (I think that's spelled
> right). Are there some fonts that I did not install or is there a setting
> I change to give me a better font?
Your fonts are handled by your X-server (XFree, Accel-X, Metro-X,
S.U.S.E.). Check out the man page for your server (man -k font).
As for those being displayed insideAfterStep, they are prescribed in
whatever look.file you are using:
#--------------------------------------------------------------
# Texts
#
Font -b&h-lucida-bold-r-*-*-12-*-75-*-*-*-*-*
WindowFont -*-crillee-normal-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
....
Use some type of font viewer (xfontsel/kfontmanager) and select the one
you wish, modify your *own* look.file, and initialize it
(menu->Desktop->Look->look.mine)
> My second question is about why 90% of all the buttons I push do nothing.
> I know why they don't work, because the programs are not installed. My
> question is how do install, for instance Astroids or Netscape? I want to
> make sure that I install properly so AfterStep can pull it up. Actually
> the most important thing that I would like to get running is AfterStep
> documentation.
Installation of programs you don't have will work in a similar fashion as
installing Debian itself. The only importance to this is that the place
where the executable is placed is in your PATH; most make-install, rpm
-Uvh, (& deb whatever-I don't use it), will put things in a directory that
is in your PATH. The best advice about this is to read the docs that
come with apps you wish to install. If you don't have Netscape, do you
have Lynx? Do a fingd for lynx and iof you do, replace the call for
Netscape in the AfterStepDoc file in the startup-menu (it's either in
/u/s/a/s/AfterStepDoc or ~/G/L/A/s/AfterStepDoc, modify the latter if it
exists). Upon completionof this task, your AfterStep documentation will
be accessible...then you can worry about getting Netscape.
> My Third question is how do I create icons and menus?
Create icons? You mean change them on the Wharf right? Look at the wharf
file, it should be self-explanatory, othersie come back with errors.
> Lastly if nothing else works shouldn't opening an xterm window work in
> AfterStep?
that depends on if you have it installed. Did it work in otherwindow
managers? Is it calling color-xterm, xterm, xiterm, rxvt? Do you have it
in your path? This might be answered when you read the docs.
> To everyone in the AfterStep mailing list, THANK YOU. Everyone is so
> helpful. Linux and AfterStep would have died along time ago if it weren't
> for people like you helping newcomers like myself.
Sure, make me feal guilty about flaming you with this type of post, I mean
really...."How do I install applications". :)
> Keith
> nfn11988@naples.net
> CNE
HTH
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