Click to bring up a menu and open a terminal. Alternatively, edit the ".xinitrc" file to auto-launch any X applications you want started ("xterm &" is a common choice) before executing the window manager. This is also how you would bundle and launch a regular X app like cmap.
- Bert - On 23.12.2008, at 16:34, Greg Smith wrote: > Hi Michael and Bert, > > It got quiet enough that I had a chance to try this myself. > > I tried installing and running the X activity and I tried following > the instructions here: > http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/12/run_a_nested_x11_desktop_on_th.html > > In both cases I got a gray screen with a "bar" showing "Workspace" > with two triangles next to it (left and right facing) on the left > side of the bar and the time with the same triangles on the right > side. > > I didn't see my pointer in the Hackfest version but I did in the X > window version. In both cases I didn't see any place to enter text > (e.g. a window). Am I missing something? > > I was hoping to get an X window with a prompt so I could install > CMap tools from there. > > Any suggestions appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Greg S > > Greg Smith wrote: >> Hi All, >> Picking up this old thread >> (http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-September/018835.html >> ) >> I want to move this forward again. >> There is a beta version of a smaller Linux implementation of CMap >> tools now. Download it from here: >> http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/cmaplite.php >> Does anyone have time to try running this inside of the X windows >> activity mentioned below? >> While we have some traction on other concept map tools (thanks >> Tomeu for Labrynth), CMap is "incumbent" in a number of countries >> and I want to figure out how close we are to supporting it. It will >> affect our ability to get XOs and Sugar in to more schools systems >> so its certainly valuable work. >> Let me know if anyone has a chance to try this out and document >> what it will take to make it work. >> Thanks, >> Greg S >> ************* >> On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at >> freudenbergs.de> wrote: >> > >> > Am 04.09.2008 um 01:06 schrieb Michael Stone: >> > >> >> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:33:28PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote: >> >>> Has anyone tried making the activity which is X-windows and >> inside >> >>> which >> >>> other activities can run? >> >> >> >> [1] and [2] seem apropos. >> >> >> >> Michael >> >> >> >> [1]: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7768#comment:8 >> >> [2]: >> >> http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/12/run_a_nested_x11_desktop_on_th.html >> >> >> > >> > I couldn't resist making an activity for that: >> > >> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities/X >> Anybody has any idea about how to make xephyr use the clipboard of >> the >> external X server? DND may be even harder. >> Regards, >> Tomeu _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel