anita@utastro.UUCP (Anita Cochran) (06/15/87)
I have an intergrated Solutions machine (68020 CPU) running X windows.
I am not very good at using X and could really use that tutorial if
anyone has one. But, on to my question. I know I can get into
4010/4014 emulation mode by invoking xterm with the -t flag. That
works fine. But can I get a crosshair cursor such as I get on a true
4010 emulator (or 4010)? If I can, how do I move it about? I tried
using the xterm window with a program which uses the cursor and nothing
seemed to happen when the crosshair should have come on. Am I doing
something wrong or is this too advanced for X?
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at&t: (512) 471-1471edmoy@opal.berkeley.edu (06/16/87)
In article <1907@utastro.UUCP> anita@utastro.UUCP (Anita Cochran) writes: >I know I can get into >4010/4014 emulation mode by invoking xterm with the -t flag. That >works fine. But can I get a crosshair cursor such as I get on a true >4010 emulator (or 4010)? If I can, how do I move it about? I tried >using the xterm window with a program which uses the cursor and nothing >seemed to happen when the crosshair should have come on. Am I doing >something wrong or is this too advanced for X? If you are running version 6.6* of xterm (which comes with X10 R4), then yes it does work. In all version 6's of xterm (and X10 R3), the cursor changes into a cross, so you use the mouse to position the crosshair. Typing a key does the same thing as on a real Tek, and pressing one of the mouse buttons is like pressing the keys "r", "m" or "l" for the right, middle and left buttons, respectively (shift button gets the upper case letters). If You are using 8 data bits, the high bit is set to distinquish the buttons from the real keys. So it was working when I submited xterm for inclusion into X10 R4. Then I start getting complaints that the cursor was disappearing in GIN mode. What little time I had to look into it didn't uncover any problem, the code looked right. Anyways, I looked at it again and it still looked right. I finally looked elsewhere and there it was! In the cursors directory where xterm gets the cross, tcross.cursor was fine, but tcross_mask.cursor had been inverted!!!! So of course the cursor disappeared. It is an easy matter to fix: % bitmap cursors/tcross_mask.cursor Hit the "Invert All" button and save. Recompile xterm (misc.c includes ../cursors/tcross_mask.cursor) and BINGO, it works! Edward Moy Academic Computing Services University of California Berkeley, CA 94720 edmoy@opal.Berkeley.EDU ucbvax!opal!edmoy