engber@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Mike Engber) (12/30/88)
x-init is great!, thanks. I have one problem with it though. My main use for it is when I want to reboot without inits so my games will work. Usually this means I have to also boot without multi-finder. Since you chose the option key it means I try to reboot holding down option & clover. However, this signals the system to rebuild the desktop. I've tried just holding down the option key and then later switching to holding down the clover key, but I can't get the timing right. So, is there any chance that you could make x-init work with some other key. I'd be happy with space or shift or tab. Whatever you like. -ME
jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw) (01/02/89)
In article <6946@spool.cs.wisc.edu> engber@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Mike Engber) writes: > So, is there any chance that you could make x-init work with some other key. > I'd be happy with space or shift or tab. Whatever you like. > > -ME Use the X-INIT installer to remove the x-init from your system folder. Then, use ResEdit to open the X-INIT installer program. Open INIT#999 and change the byte at $00030. Its initial value should be $0003. Set it to $0000 for X-init to work with the Command key $0001 Shift key $0002 CapsLock key Close, saving changes, and quit. Then use the modified Installer to put X-INIT back into your system. N.B. For the particular use you requested (to work in conjunction with multifinder supression, without deleterious side effects), you'll need to set it to $0000, Command key. This is because MF checks if the command key AND ONLY THE COMMAND KEY is depressed during booting. So setting X-INIT to Shift and holding Cmd-Shift will suppress your INITs but not the booting of Multifinder. The word at position $00030 is the bit-number (mod 8) of the high-byte of an event record's modifiers flags. These bitfields are described in IM I-252. Disclaimer: I didn't write X-INIT, I just wish I had. -- +-------------------+-jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu / !rutgers!bpa!swatsun!jackiw-+ | nicholas jackiw | jackiw%campus.swarthmore.edu@swarthmr.bitnet | +-------------------+-VGP/MathDept/Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081--+ ...the wind jerked cigarette smoke over their shoulders in the morning rain...