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08-05-2001

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XWindows on Mac OSX

Hello, I'm like most people who post here, I'm new in UNIX. Yesterday I installed Xwindows on my OSX box just to learn as much about UNIX as I can. I been messing around with my terminal and conf files that have to do with Apache and sendmail and didn't mess anything up so I thought I was ready to get more on the side of unix. I have a toturial that came in last month's issure of Mac Addict along with the files needed on a disk, but they didn't tell how to use it.

What I get when I log into Xwindows are three terminals; one that says login and two that say, well I can't remember right now. I was expecting it to look a little like the SUN system we have at work; a little like gnome. Or at least have icons and GUI windows and menus.

On a page closer the front, they have a review of an OSX verison of GIMP called Xtools, they have a box on the bottom left corner of that page that talkes a little about X Windows. I assumed that is what forms the windows, icons, and menus. So I went back and installed a file called Xnest, it says this is "a nested X Window server". When I rebooted Xwindows after installing this, nothing changed.

Is there a command that I need to enter, did I do something wrong, is there a file I need to install, or am I just missing something?

Thanks for your help

Alpha_Harblo

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bt-input

bt-input(1)							    bluez-tools 						       bt-input(1)

NAME

       bt-input - a bluetooth input manager

SYNOPSIS

       bt-input [OPTION...]

       Help Options:
	 -h, --help

       Application Options:
	 -a, --adapter=<name|mac>
	 -c, --connect=<name|mac>
	 -d, --disconnect=<name|mac>

DESCRIPTION

       This utility is used to manage outgoing input (HID) service connections.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	   Show help

       -a, --adapter <name|mac>
	   Specify adapter to use by his Name or MAC address
	   (if this option does not defined - default adapter used)

       -c, --connect <name|mac>
	   Connect to the input device

       -d, --disconnect <name|mac>
	   Disconnect from the input device

AUTHOR

       Alexander Orlenko <zxteam@gmail.com>.

SEE ALSO

       bt-adapter(1) bt-agent(1) bt-audio(1) bt-device(1) bt-monitor(1) bt-network(1) bt-serial(1)

								    2010-08-11							       bt-input(1)

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