From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Apr 29 06:45:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA03940 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 06:45:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hobbes.crc.com (hobbes.crc.com [192.251.235.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA03914 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 06:45:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpb@yeti.hqs.crc.com) Received: from yeti.hqs.crc.com(really [192.146.211.204]) by hobbes.crc.com via sendmail with esmtp id for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:45:37 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built 1997-Mar-21) Received: from moses.hqs.crc.com (moses.hqs.crc.com [192.146.211.111]) by yeti.hqs.crc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA06206; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:46:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dpb@yeti.hqs.crc.com) Message-ID: <001401bd7375$1741d480$6fd392c0@moses.hqs.crc.com> From: "Dan Benjamin" To: "Greg Lehey" , , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Subject: Re: Demo CDs (was: blessing) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 09:45:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >board. Include a functional fvwm95 window mangler so that what comes >up looks pretty much like what Microsoft users are used to (can >somebody come up with a daemon logo to fit where Microsoft puts its >windows logo?). These already exist - if you use the fvwm95 package and install the fbsd_icon package - it's already got a taskbar mod to insert the daemon where the 95 logo goes, and a "FreeBSD" graphic to go where "Windows 95" goes (lenghtwise along the start menu). >This thing needs more flesh. Any ideas? What problems do you see? >About the biggest one I see so far is how to find the mouse. It would >be nice to modify startx to check for the mouse if no valid pointer >section is found in the XF86Config file ("no mouse found: please move >your mouse around until I say \"stop\""). Anybody know how to >recognize a mouse? This is a good point - is it safe enough to assume that most people have com 1 free? Even on systems where there is a ps2 style mouse, com 1 is usually unused. We could specify that they need to use a serial mouse on com1 to get things started. It's not too much to ask IMHO. -Dan B. dan@bsdweek.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message