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ATTENTION! In Maple under X-Win, Backspace is
realized as Shift-Backspace. Also, middle mouse button
functionality is attained by pressing the left and right mouse buttons
simultaneously. Here's how to invoke this X emulator from a PC
in a TAMU computing center.
- If necessary, restore (open) the Communications folder.
- Double click on the X-win icon. A small window entitled ``X-Win''
opens. Then a window entitled ``Single X Window'' fills the entire
screen.
- Minimize this Single X Window. It is now an icon at the bottom
of the screen. (To minimize a window, click once with the left mouse
button on the downward-pointing arrow button in the upper right corner
of the window. You use the left mouse button for most operations.)
- Now click on the Sessions menu in the X-Win
window and randomly select one of CalcLab servers: CalcLab 1/2/3/4.
- The pointer will momentarily disappear. Move your mouse around
and the pointer will reappear near the bottom of the screen.
- Move the pointer to the Single X Window icon at the bottom of
the screen and double click on it.
- The relevant CalcLab login window appears within a full screen
Single X Window, the ``root window.'' (If not, select a different
server--see Item #3 above.)
- Login by typing your CalcLab userid and password in the usual
manner.
- The login messages screen appears. Read the messages and note if
you have any new email.
- Click on Login. The usual clients appear in the root window
(Maple, pine, and a clock.)
- Work on your assignment, saving your work early and often.
- When you are finished, remember to logout!
- Click on the background to obtain the Root Menu.
- Select Logout.
- Wait a few seconds. Verify the logout by clicking on OK.
- Soon your client windows close.
- Finally, close the Single X Window.
Micro X-Win is an X Window System emulator which runs under Microsoft
Windows. It is available in all CIS open access labs around campus.
The closest one to the Blocker CalcLabs is down the hall in Blocker 133.
With Micro X-Win on a PC, it's just like sitting in front of an X
terminal in the CalcLabs. You do not need to transfer files back and
forth between the servers and the PC hard disk. This is because you
are logged into a CalcLab server, with its vaunted speed and
reliability. This way you can work during the day when you have time
between your classes under the same environment that you use in Maple
lab. (This is a win/win situation: you get your work done, while TAs
and instructors don't have their classes interrupted!) Moreover, if
the CalcLabs are full during open hours, Micro X-Win provides
additional accessibility down the hall and throughout the campus.
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Art Belmonte
Tue Aug 27 11:05:59 CDT 1996