Re: Upgrade report, 1.7.111 -> 1.7.161

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sasha <sasha@sprintmail.com> wrote on Wed, 05 Jan 2000:
> check that you have asetroot in your autoexec.

I didn't.  I've added these lines there now:

        Exec    "I"     asetroot
        Wait    "I"     asetroot

... and I assume that will fix the problem.  I'll test that out when I
have the chance to restart AS. :-)

> I don't know what version you were using before,

1.7.111

> but starting with 1.7.127 (I
> may be wrong) - asetroot is the only tool that you can use to setup root
> background.

Okay.


Ethan <allanon@crystaltokyo.com> wrote on Wed, 05 Jan 2000:
> Make sure you're using asetroot to set your background.  If you want to 
> change backgrounds via a script, here's a way to accomplish the task:
> 
> ascommand.pl 'Background "" image.jpg'

I don't want to do them via a script, I want to do it from the command
line, those rare time when I do want to change my desktop image. :-)

I created this small script, asbg, for that purpose:

#!/bin/sh
if [ -r $1 ]; then
  ascommand.pl 'Background "" '$1
fi

> ... be aware that the desktop will be reset whenever you change desktops 
> if asetroot is running resident (ie, not with the -l option).

I don't follow, what do you mean with "reset"?  In any case, I
practically never have things on more than one desktop, I prefer to
just use the pager.  So I guess I don't need to worry of understanding
what you said. :-)

> Yup, I'm also interested in problems people have during the upgrade.

Any hints about the "CirculateUp" reference?  Since someone else got
that too, it's not just me.

I was quite happy to find that I was getting "Balloons" for the window
buttons (close, iconify, etc.) which told me what each mouse button did
for each button.  But now those (balloons) have disappeared!  I was
going to ask where do I set their colour, but now I have to change my
question to "Does anyone know where they went?"  I've restarted AS once
(not exit/re-login, just restart) and I'm guessing they stopped
appearing after that, because I can't think of anything else that I've
done that would affect them (just switching backgrounds and such).


Thanks for all the help. :-)

Mikko
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