NAME

xcontrol − X Control Panel

SYNOPSIS

xcontrol [ toolkit option...  ]

DESCRIPTION

Xcontrol is a control panel application which allows the user to tailor the behaviour of the X server.  It provides many of the facilities of xset(1) but with a much nicer user interface. 

MENUS

The menubar at the top of the window has two entries.  Quit contains only one button, Exit, which quits the application. Update contains two buttons.  Set all resends all of xcontrol’s current settings to the server.  This is useful if you think that the server’s settings have been changed under your feet (by xset(1) perhaps).  Get all does the exact opposite; it reset’s xcontrol’s state to that of the X server.  This is useful if you have altered the server with xset and want to see the changes reflected in xcontrol.

GENERAL

The general section contains just one toggle button, which controls the ‘bug compatibility’ mode of the Release 4 server.  If your server does not support this feature then the toggle will be insensitive and shaded out. 

BELL

This section comprises three sliders controlling bell volume, duration and pitch.  The bell is sounded after each adjustment so you can hear the difference it made. 

MOUSE SPEED

The mouse speed section has two sliders which let you control the mouse feel.  The first slider controls the acceleration, which is an integer multiple to be applied to all mouse movements over a certain number of pixels.  The second slider controls this number of pixels, called the threshold. 

KEYBOARD

This section contains a slider to control the keyclick volume from 0 (off) to 100 (full volume).  It also holds a toggle button to turn autorepeat on and off. 

FONT PATH

The font path may be edited using the standard Motif editing commands.  It should be arranged one directory per line with a terminating slash character (/) at the end of each line.  The ‘Set’ button sends the edited string to the server, and the ‘Get’ button gets the server’s idea of the font path.  The ‘Default’ button replaces the contents of the font path with a sensible default value, but does not actually send it to the server. 

SCREENSAVER

The screensaver is controlled by two sliders which set the timeout and cycle interval times (times in minutes).  The interval only applies to the ‘graphic’ screensaver.  The ‘Saver type’ buttons control whether the server works by blanking the screen or displaying a periodically changing graphic display.  The ‘Allow exposures’ buttons, when set to ‘No’, prevent the screensaver from operating if it would cause clients to receive expose events.  The ‘Activate’ push button allows you to start the screensaver manually.  There is a one second pause to allow the mouse to settle before the screensaver is invoked. 

Acorn X servers do not support a graphic screen saver, but xcontrol provides facilities to manipulate one in case you want to use it to control a non-Acorn server across the network. 

BUGS

Due to a deficiency in the X11 protocol, it is not possible to control the keyboard autorepeat rate.  This must be set from the command line when the X server is started; see Xarm(1).

FILES

/usr/lib/X11/motif/uid/xcontrol.uid − user interface module

SEE ALSO

xset(1), Xarm(1), Xserver(1)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1990, Acorn Computers Ltd. 

AUTHOR

Steve Hunt, Acorn Computers Ltd. 

Acorn Computers Ltd  —  Revision 1.3 of 15/11/90