Re: Easy questions regarding Afterstep

Tomas Duewiger (td@music-satellite.de)
16 May 1998 19:51:51 +0200 

Keith Alen Vance <nfn11988@naples.net> writes:

> 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?

There are many settings, mainly in the look files you want to use,
there you can change fonts.

> 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.

Just install them as written in the manuals and then configure
AfterStep to find them. You should have a /usr/share/afterstep/start/
directory (or the same in your home directory ~/GNUstep/... ) there
you can edit the entries and add new ones, one file for each entry.
Regarding the documentation, I donīt know, this bastard didnīt compile 
here, I donīt got SGML Tools installed.

> My Third question is how do I create icons and menus?

Hu, you maybe want to take a look at this website:
http://www.music-satellite.de/spearhead/
That should explain a little bit what you want to know, I hope it
will. (Please send me any comments you got on that).

> Lastly if nothing else works shouldn't opening an xterm window work in
> AfterStep?

Yes this should work, maybe your PATH isnīt set up correctly?

Hope this helps
Tomas

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Tomas Duewiger
td@music-satellite.de
http://music-satellite.de/spearhead/

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