[rescue] Mac: is this an X client?

[vraptor at employees.org]

On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:

>"Mike Hebel" <nimitz at speakeasy.net> says ...
>
>> MI/X also exists for 68k Macs as well.  Need to search the web for an
>> old download though as Microimages doesn't support it any more.  If
>> anybody needs that version I can mail them the file since it's
>abandonware.
>
>Seaking of X on Macs ... what do you do about a three-button mouse?  Use the
>Mac's single mousebutton and some keyboard key?

I've never used MI/X or even knew that WRQ had an X client for Macs.
Reflection was a pretty good terminal app, though I recall engineers
complaining that it was too slow when compared to NCSA telnet.

The only X client I've used was Mac X (still have it around somewhere).
It was, well, kinda clunky.

As for the 1-button mouse issue, ditch it.  You should be able able
to track down a 3-button Logitech ADB mouse w/drivers (I don't think
I have one, but I probably still have the drivers, somewhere.)  Or
if it's a newer Mac, get a USB card and go that route.

Strangely, though I can now run X "sort of" native on the
G3 (and even with the G4 I had at my last job), I find
myself just using the terminal with splat-c and splat-v
rather than running X.  The shift back-and-forth between
*all* the rootless X application windows and Aqua was just
aesthetically displeasing to me.  But then, I don't really
run any X-based apps, so I don't really need it anyway.

=Nadine=