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Metro Link, Inc. <amyz at metrolink.com> - June 23rd 2000, 11:34 EST
This is Metro Link, Inc.'s enhanced version of Open Motif, which
includes approximately 30 significant bug fixes and enhancements to
the Motif libraries and window manager, plus many minor source changes
and over 100 fixes to the Motif demo source code. These changes were
developed for Metro Link's commercial Motif products, and are now
being contributed back to Open Motif.
URLS
Download: http://www.metrolink.com/openmotif/download.html
Homepage: http://www.metrolink.com/openmotif/
I have installed it and tried it with Motif Poplog on a Dell Laptop
running Redhat 6.1, and Steve Allen has tried it with Suse Linux.
Installation is simple: download the file
openmotif-2.1.30-4_MLI.i386.rpm
Then, as root,
rpm -i openmotif-2.1.30-4_MLI.i386.rpm
If you have Lesstif, rpm will complain. You can either
uninstall Lesstif, or force installation of motif:
rpm -i --force openmotif-2.1.30-4_MLI.i386.rpm
If you have the non-motif version of Linux Poplog V15.53 dated Nov 1999
(not the earlier versions built in July or September 1999) then you
should be able to re-link it to use motif:
1. unprotect both $popsys and $usepop/pop/extern/lib, the latter
so that libXpw.so can be rebuilt.
chmod -R u+w $popsys $usepop/pop/extern/lib
2. Give this command to do the re-linking
$popsrc/newpop -link -x=-xm -xpw
Other options are described in the HELP NEWPOP file, i.e.
$usepop/pop/help/newpop
You can add the noinstall flag to prevent installation in $popsys
e.g. to see if re-linking works:
$popsrc/newpop -link -x=-xm -xpw -noinstall
After re-linking you should be able to run poplog if you have Motif
available. You can then run Xved with scroll bars and menus on each
window.
NOTE: Even without Motif you can run the rclib and rcmenu
packages available at the Free Poplog site. See
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/rclib/help/rclib
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/rcmenu/help/ved_menu
These menus don't require XVed. They work just as well with
Ved.
Aaron
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Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
EMAIL A.Sloman AT cs.bham.ac.uk (ReadATas@please !)
PAPERS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/
TOOLS: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/freepoplog.html
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