2.6.7 kernel, do i have the packages?

mcd · 11-01-2004, 12:46 AM

$ ls -alc /dev/psaux
crw-rw---- 1 root sys 10, 1 2004-10-16 13:21 /dev/psaux

mcd · 11-01-2004, 01:01 AM

from a transparent aterm on my fluxbox desktop:

$ uname -r
2.6.7

woot! it was that CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y option. so it's working properly, time to see how it chalks up to 2.4.26

Bruce Hill · 11-01-2004, 03:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mcd
from a transparent aterm on my fluxbox desktop:

$ uname -r
2.6.7

woot! it was that CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y option. so it's working properly, time to see how it chalks up to 2.4.26

w00t!

w00t!

Hey, tell me how to do a "transparent aterm" in Fluxbox, will ya?
I don't know how.

Glad you're up and running!!!

mcd · 11-01-2004, 02:38 PM

well, just install aterm (i use slackpkg so it was as easy as su - slackpkg install aterm) and then you need to pass it whichever options you want when you run it. there are a lot, so i'd recommend man aterm, but here are a few of the cooler ones:

-tr transparency
-trsb transparent scrollbar
-sh 50 shaded 50% (or whatever you like)
-fg foreground color (font color)
-tn tint (read up on this in man, i forget if it needs a number)
-sl 400 saved lines (how much history do you want to be able to scroll through?)

--geometry 50x50+40+10 (this makes an aterm 50x50, 40 (pixels i guess) to the right and 10 pixels down from the top left of the screen)

so anyway, in the end, my .fluxbox/menu files has an entry that looks something like this:

[exec] (aterm) {aterm -tr -sh 70 -fg green -geometry 80x35+50+50 -trsb -sl 400}

here's a really old screenshot, it's not my current box (and it's running gnome instead of fluxbox) but it's the same aterm options.

Bruce Hill · 11-01-2004, 04:00 PM

How about giving me a mirror? Mine didn't have it,
and you could save me some searching...

;p

Code:

mingdao@james:~$ su -c "slackpkg install aterm"
Password: 

Looking for aterm in package list. Please, wait... DONE

No packages matches the pattern for install. Try:

        /usr/sbin/slackpkg reinstall|upgrade aterm


mingdao@james:~$

mcd · 11-01-2004, 04:08 PM

sorry, i'm at work right now so i can't check which mirror my slackpkg points to, but a quick google search yielded the following link:

http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/aterm.html

where you can download the tarball. you can install that using slackpkg, i think you

tar -xvzf aterm.tgz
cd aterm
./configure
make
checkinstall

i _believe_ checkinstall turns the directory into a slackware package, and _also_ offers you the option of installing it at the end. you may need to get checkinstall off the slackware cd, i believe it's in the extras directory.

Bruce Hill · 11-01-2004, 04:19 PM

CheckInstall is the first app I install after a Slack installation.
Yet another thing that makes Slack head and shoulders above
all the other distros.

I can get the Aterm source from SourceForge - compiling
from source is my favorite way. ;p

I just wanted to try out slackpkg. My best Slack mirror from
here is HeaNet in Italy, but they didn't have it.

I'm patient - I'll just wait until you get home. I don't think it
is on a mirror, though, because I couldn't find it at Slackware.
But once you check, we'll know.

Thanks!

mcd · 11-01-2004, 10:26 PM

you're right, i was wrong. it's not available as a slackware package, so you have to download the source and do it yourself. sorry to get your hopes up.

Bruce Hill · 11-02-2004, 02:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mcd
you're right, i was wrong. it's not available as a slackware package, so you have to download the source and do it yourself. sorry to get your hopes up.

No problem. You didn't "get my hopes up," cause I'm not
really fond of package managers. Rather roll my own.
Maybe I'll compile aterm and check it out. If I'm not
mistaken, I can't get transparency in xterm with
Fluxbox - which is about all I ever use.