Some installation questions

Mikko Hänninen (Mikko.Hanninen@dna.fi)
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 14:01:00 +0300 

Hello,

I've just tried migrating from AfterStep 0.99beta-something to the
1.7.111 version.  I'm using an old Slackware 3.1 based Linux system.

Upgrading wasn't as easy as I had hoped...  The compile went cleanly
(no errors that I noticed, anyway), and the binaries are working fine
as far as I tell, but I have some trouble with the configuration.  I
read in the FAQ about the configuration change from a steprc to the
GNUste directory and contents.  But this is where I ran into problems.
The FAQ says to just copy {AfterStepPath}/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/
to ~/GNUstep/Library/AfterStep/, but there is no GNUstep directory
anywhere in my system at all as far as I can tell...  Not in
/usr/local/share/afterstep, nor even in the src-directory.  Am I
missing something?  Where may I get these files?

As a note, the installation instructions in the README file do not
give any indication that this is something that should be done in an
installation.  Is this left out from the README?


Another question I have, which is actually the reason why I decided to
try to upgrade.  How do I adjust the mouse sensitivity?  I've been
wondering about this for awhile now.  Nothing in the XF86Config file
seems to indicate that this is changed in the X server, so it must be
changed by the window manager -- yet there's no documented option for
that at least in the 0.99 version .steprc file or man page.  I searched
the list archives but only references I found pointed to gpm.  So, any
ideas on how to do this?  Should I be looking into X configuration or
my WM configuration?

While I'm writing, how do I "un-pin" menus?  Having pinnable menus is
nice and neat, but I find them annoying, particularly if I can't get rid
of them!  First-level menus seem to disappear if I click "another menu"
open, but this doesn't work for sub-menus.


TIA,
Mikko
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