Re: Some installation questions

David G. Watson (dgwatson@kent.edu)
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 08:50:40 -0400 

First of all, you don't copy the contents of /whatever/the/path/is/G/L/A - it's
actually the stuff in /usr/share/afterstep or /usr/local/share/afterstep.  

And you only need to copy that stuff if you're going to be changing things -
and don't forget to use .include files for your startmenu.

About pinnable menus: as far as I know, just click on the close box - that
should work.

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, you wrote:
> 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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