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"Linux Gazette...<I>making Linux just a little more fun!</I>"
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<font color="maroon">Updates and Corrections</font>
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<h4>By <a href="mailto: layers@marktwain.net">Larry Ayers</a></h4>
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<center><h3>Introduction</h3></center>
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<p>I've accumulated a few updates to past articles and reviews, presented here
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in reverse chronological order. By the way, I appreciate the e-mail I receive
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from LG readers; keep it coming!
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<center><h3>The Keyboard Practicer</h3></center>
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<p>Last month, in the second of two articles about typing tutor
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programs I included the Tcl source for a program by Satoshi Asami
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called Keyboard Practicer. It turns out that the version I had
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didn't include the licensing information, which follows:
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/*-
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* Copyright (c) 1991-1998 Satoshi Asami
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* All rights reserved.
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* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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* are met:
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* 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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* 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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* notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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* documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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*
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* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS
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* IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
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* LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
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* FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
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* AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
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* INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
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* (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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* OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
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* INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,
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* WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
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* NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
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* THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
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*/
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<p>The updated archive (which doesn't include any changes other than the
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inclusion of the above license) is available from this FTP
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<a href="ftp://stampede.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/kp/kp-0.97.tar.gz"> site</a>.
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<center><h3>Typist</h3></center>
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<p>A couple of issues ago I wrote about a console keyboard tutor called
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Typist, which at that time was in Sunsite's /pub/Linux/Incoming directory.
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I've received e-mail inquiries as to its current location, which isn't
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obvious. The new location is
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<a href="ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/cai/typist-2.1a.tar.gz">here</a>.
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<center><h3>TkDesk</h3></center>
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<p>After a long hiatus, Christian Bolik has released a new version of his
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featureful file-and-desktop manager TkDesk. I reviewed a much earlier release
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back in 1996 (LG #8), and in the several releases since then the application
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has improved and matured. Another factor which has changed since 1996 is the
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typical desktop machine running TkDesk. The application felt a trifle
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sluggish on my old, low-memory 486, but on a reasonably recent Pentium-based
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system TkDesk runs well. Aside from being a versatile and configurable
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file-manager, TkDesk occupies a sort of middle ground between the typical
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miscellaneous collection of Linux apps and a full-fledged desktop manager such
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as KDE or Gnome. Its integration with Netscape and XEmacs is particularly
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useful, and the button-bar is one of the most configurable and useful I've
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seen for X-Windows.
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<p>TkDesk still won't run with Tcl/Tk 8.0, but now that incrTcl
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(the C++ object-oriented extension to Tcl) has been updated to work with the
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newer Tcl/Tk releases, the release of a version of TkDesk which uses these
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libraries can't be too far off. The new 1.1 release of TkDesk works fine with
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Tcl7.6/Tk4.2 for the time being. The TkDesk homepage is
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<a href="http://people.mainz.netsurf.de/~bolik/tkdesk/">here</a>.
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<hr>
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<center><h3>Window Managers</h3></center>
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<p>Two of the most promising new window-managers available for X have been
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undergoing rapid development lately. Marco Macek's Icewm is getting better
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with each release, and the recent betas have been including GNOME-specific
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features. This won't affect those users who aren't using GNOME, as the
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configure script detects a GNOME installation and disables these features if
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CNOME isn't installed. Check out the icewm
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<a href="http://berta.fri.uni-lj.si/~markom/icewm">home-page</a>
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for the latest news.
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<p>Brad Hughes has been working hard to squelch bugs and further refine his
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Blackbox window-manager. He has successfully converted Blackbox so that it
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uses the GNU autoconf system instead of an Imakefile type of configuration; in
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other words it now uses a configure script to generate a custom-tailored
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makefile, which in some cases will make Blackbox easier to compile.
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<p>The Blackbox home-page is <a href="http://linux.wiw.org/blackbox">here</a>.
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Last modified: Wed 28 Oct 1998
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<center><H5>Copyright © 1998, Larry Ayers <BR>
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Published in Issue 34 of <i>Linux Gazette</i>, November 1998</H5></center>
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