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- PROGRAM
- bricons
-
- DESCRIPTION
- The bricons program allows the user to start up applications
- from a configured command panel on a workstation display
- running X. The bricons interface can consist of up to sixteen
- buttons which can display some text or an icon. Each button is
- used to execute a shell command using the Bourne shell.
- Each button can be configured to display a single spring
- loaded popup menu with up to ten more buttons.
-
- COMPILATION
- Assuming a good X installation at your site, simply:
-
- xmkmf ; make
-
- Otherwise use the Makefile provided.
-
- CONFIGURATION
- Once the bricons program has been successfully compiled it can
- be executed straight away it should display some example buttons
- one of which is a sub menu.
-
- The bricons program looks for a .briconsrc configuration file in
- your home directory otherwise it looks in the current directory
- for the file.
-
- PORTABILITY
- The bricons program has been compiled and tested on the following:
-
- machine SPARC workstation1 SPARC workstation2
- operating system SunOS 4.1.1 SunOS 4.1.2_ER
-
- machine DEC3100 VAX station
- operating system Ultrix Worksystem V2.1 Ultrix-32 V3.1
- (Rev 14) (Rev. 9)
-
- machine Sun3
- operating system SunOS 4.1.1
-
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Many thanks go to Richard Hesketh and Martin Davy for all their
- help and advice.
-
- ___________________________________________________________________________
- Bruce Ingram email bri@ukc.ac.uk
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