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Wed, 29 Oct 2003

Wed Oct 29 14:29:58 2003 clipboard integration non-progress
Got back to my office in 217CN, logged in (the X server startup up cleanly). Ran xemacs, got the same inconsistent behavior trying to copy from the X window to Notepad. So xemacs doesn't help on that.

However, xemacs does seem to be somewhat better in understanding modifiers on mouse buttons. button3 and M-C-button3 have observably different behavior: they pop up different context menus.

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Wed Oct 29 13:30:28 2003 What I miss about X
I think the thing I miss most in moving from vtwm to WinXP (assuming we get past dealbreaker issues like working clipboard integration) is the ability to bring up a list of all the current windows with a single mouse click

For example, in my .vtwmrc, I have the line

Button1 = : root : f.menu "TwmWindows"

I am told that are ways of obtaining similar functionality in XP. Can anyone fill me in?

BTW, the other thing I miss is the ability to minimize a window with a single keystroke (typically a function key), no mouse required. Can I program my function keys to do something like this?

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Wed Oct 29 11:25:36 2003 Quick Launch Toolbar Issues

MW == Me, JW == my son Josh

MW> 1.  I've somehow gotten into a state where the Quick Launch Toolbar
MW> displays itself with large icons rather than small ones.  That
MW> makes it pretty useless.  Do you have any idea how to 
MW> control this?

JW> 1) right click on empty space in toolbar. View > small icons

MW> Bleah!  How did I miss that?

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MW> 2.  Do you have any experience with alternatives to the Quick Launch
MW> toolbar? 

JW> 2) I use True Launch Bar (www.truesoft.com). Costs $10 or $15, supports
JW> cascading menus, virtual folders, lots of plugins for weather, disk space,
JW> system monitor, POP3 checker, etc.

MW> Yes, I ran across this yesterday.  I tried downloading it for my
MW> office machine, but you need to be an administrator to install it :(

MW> It looks handy.  I will try it on my home machines & pester the Powers
MW> that Be if I think it's worth the effort.

Wed Oct 29 09:43:59 2003 All Machines in CCIS are not alike
So I went to log in on one of the Dells in Egan. (Because I wanted to try running xemacs over X to see if I got the same inconsistent clipboard behavior).

The good news is that my startup folder still contained exactly 1 XWin startup.

The bad news is that on Owen's machine, the X server failed to start, producing a window that said:

XWin.exe - Unable to locate component:
The application failed to start because cygcygipc-2.dll ws ot found.
Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Stranger yet: on Vassilios' machine, the X server also failed to start, but produced no error message.

I tried this both from the startup menu and from my handy shortcut for restarting the X server.

Bleah!

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