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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!nntp.uac.net!news.tufts.edu!blanket.mitre.org!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: props (openwin) binary in XF86? Date: 3 Jun 1996 22:35:24 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4ovpbc$7f1@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <31B2DFB6.41C67EA6@panoramix.rain.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.windows.x.i386unix:20166 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:20618 In article <31B2DFB6.41C67EA6@panoramix.rain.fr>, Tom Fischer <tfischer@panoramix.rain.fr> wrote: >One of the options in the standard menu is a "Properties" option, >which under linux or SunOS launches a binary called >/usr/openwin/bin/props, and lets the user control several aspects >of their x environment. > >I can't seem to find this program in the XFree86 distribution >for FreeBSD. I think it was in an earlier distribution of the OpenWin stuff, but Sun took it out of the distribution that's in the ports. Apparently it's still on an FTP site somewhere (sorry, can't remember where). -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland | http://freefall.freebsd.org/~jraynard/ james@jraynard.demon.co.uk | jraynard@freebsd.org