IRIX and Software

Hello Diego,

I just have a few minor things you might consider changing, but before complaining, let me tell you that I enjoy your xdefaults, I found quite a few nice things you did there I didn't know before!

However, you should really change the permissions of the config files, like /.cshrc and such. Right now, its 777 and so if someone were to install slimdesktop on a multiuser machine, everyone could insert stuff into roots csh scripts and therefore gain root priviliges.

It would also be nice if you could include the other vfc files for MGRAS machines into slimdesktop. If you want to make it really nifty, you could also use swpkg to install those files based on which machine it's being installed on (see the attrbutes tab on swpkg).

I was also wondering whether you would consider including xli, so that the background images could be included as .jpgs, which would decrease the size of the tardist considerably.

Let me know what you think about my suggestions and keep up the great work!

Greetings
Tobias

Yes; This was a major bug on the previous release, it is fixed now.

No problem; but could pass me any link to those vfc files? The problem is: I don't have any Octane box, only O2(s) here. And yes for sure, I know how to build these platform dependant tardist.

...mmmhhh; I could check these one, but on my experience the 4Dwm desktop behaves slower when using JPEG backgounds; let me know your experience anyway...

They are available from Nicoya's homepage , it was on neko's blog some time ago. If you decide to include them, I would gladly test it for you, I have MGRAS graphics options on Indigo2 and Octane.

Hm, I never noticed any difference in speed once the graphics are loaded, I was asking because loading an xpm pixmap to the background on the O2 I have at work takes like almost 2 minutes (granted, it's only a 270MHz r12k with 256MB ram, so nothing fancy like your 600MHz machines, but well, it takes an awful long time).

Greetings
Tobias

It would also be nice if you could include the other vfc files for MGRAS machines into slimdesktop. If you want to make it really nifty, you could also use swpkg to install those files based on which machine it's being installed on (see the attrbutes tab on swpkg).

There's gotta be a fairy somewhere, making my wishes come true

Great job, Diego!

Sure, will be glad to test, once it's done. Just spend half the night tracking a silly thing with openntpd though

Hi All,

I downloaded Freeciv from Foetz directory.
bunzipped and untarred the file.

Then I thought to get it running I start it like this:
civclient

but that gives me the follolwing error messages:
root>civclient
1887:civclient: rld: Fatal Error: Cannot Successfully map soname 'libintl.so.4' under any of the filenames /usr/nekoware/lib/libintl.so.4:/temp/pango-1.4.1/pango/.libs/libintl.so.4:/usr/local/lib/libintl.so.4:/usr/nekoware/dev/pango-1.6.0/pango/.libs/libintl.so.4:/usr/lib32/libintl.so.4:/usr/lib32/internal/libintl.so.4:/lib32/libintl.so.4:/opt/lib32/libintl.so.4:/usr/nekoware/lib/libintl.so.4.4:/temp/pango-1.4.1/pango/.libs/libintl.so.4.4:/usr/local/lib/libintl.so.4.4:/usr/nekoware/dev/pango-1.6.0/pango/.libs/libintl.so.4.4:/usr/lib32/libintl.so.4.4:/usr/lib32/internal/libintl.so.4.4:/lib32/libintl.so.4.4:/opt/lib32/libintl.so.4.4:


Does any one have any idea where to put freeciv directory in the first place?
and which dependancies does it have?
Should I use (if any) SGI freeware or Nekochan freeware dependancies?

Kind regards,

I followed the advice of squeen and installed neko_freeciv-2 together
with all its nekoware dependancies.
I get the game up and running but the colors are f*cked up.
This evening I will post the error messages that I get during start
so that might give you a clue for what is going wrong.

Hi Joerg,

Please help me a bit, how do I enable 24bit color modus for my root window?
I ran the game on my Octane with V6 card and irix 6.5.23 or 24

I was also wondering whether you would consider including xli, so that the background images could be included as .jpgs, which would decrease the size of the tardist considerably.