juo@cloud9.Stratus.COM (John Oleynick) (07/28/89)
Hi,
I just installed Andrew on my Sun tonight, and have a
few questions and problems. I am using a diskless 3/60, which
is connected to a 3/something server. Both are running SunOs 4.0.1,
and X11R2. Somebody had already installed Andrew, but it had lots
of problems, probably because whoever installed it (I don't know who)
did it wrong. So, tonight, I took Andrew off of the X11R3 tape, and
installed it. I set the define in config/andrewenv.h so it would know
that it was running on R2, and not R3 (yet), and to only compile
up to level 2. It compiled with only a few minor problems (details below,
if you're interested). Andrew seems to work fine now, except for a few
small problems. The first is that it seems to ignore my cwm.startup in
.Xdefaults. I imagine this is because I am doing something wrong, but
I have no idea what. The second has to do with menus. It is kind of hard
to explain, and besides, if I had any language skills, I wouldn't have
been a CS major, but I'll try. When I bring up a menu, it looks something
like this, with 3 (I'm not sure what there supposed to be called, how about
menu panel, for now) menu panels, stacked in front of each other like this:
+------+
|C |
| +------+
| |B |
+-| +------+
| |A |
+-| |
| |
+------+
If I move the cursor back to an exposed part of the C panel, the
menus flip around like this, as I'd expect:
+------+
| |
| |-+
| C| |
+------+ |-+
| B| |
+------+ |
| A|
+------+
The problem comes when I try and select something on the C menu.
As soon as I move the cursor anywhere over the B panel, including
its unexposed area, covered by the C panel, the B menu flips to the
front. Thus, the only way I can select anything on the C panel is
to be really, really careful about keeping the cursor on just the edge
of the C panel, and to not touch the covered part of the B panel.
This is even more painful than the new Sunview menus. It seems to
happen for any menu panel except the original front/top one, i.e. if
the B panel is in front, as soon as I move over the
covered part of the A panel, the A panel flips to the front.
So, the question is, is this a bug or a feature, or something I can
select in my .Xdefaults or preferences?
Other than that, Andrew seems to work fine. I haven't used it much
tonight, although I did get to use it a few years ago when I spent a
semester at CMU (jo15, if anyone remembers me), and I've missed it
since then.
Oh, one other question. When I installed everything, I did it
using the option to create symbolic links to everything, instead
of actually copying everything to the /usr/andrew directories.
Short of re-installing the whole thing, is there any easy way to
actually copy everything to the directories, so I don't have
to keep the whole source tree around, since we are kind of short
on space.
Finally in case anyone is interested, these were the compilation problems I
ran into trying to install Andrew. This was on a Sun 3/60, with SunOs
4.0.1, and the standard Sun C compiler and cpp:
andrew/overhead/malloc/malloc.h - Changed a line from #ifndef (_MALLOC_)
to #ifndef _MALLOC_, since the cpp got confused
by the parens.
andrew/overhead/malloc/mallocitc.h - Changed a line from #ifndef (_MALLOCITC_)
to #ifndef _MALLOCITC_.
andrew/atk/console/lib/errormon.c - Added a #include <sys/stream.h> to
get the queue_t structure, which is needed by <sys/tty.h>.
andrew/atk/console/lib/errormonfreq.c - Added a #include <sys/stream.h> to
get the queue_t structure, which is needed by <sys/tty.h>.
andrew/atk/termulator/termulator.c - Added a #include <fcntl.h> to
get the definition of O_NDELAY.
Well, back to more Andrew fun.
John
John Oleynick juo@cloud9.stratus.com ..!harvard!cloud9!juo