Friday, April 21, 2006

Resizable screen of X-windows

1. When using Cygwin, one may encouter the problem that the windows are fixed, nonremovable. However, this is cuased by using the command $: x& and issue commands in cygwin directly.

2. However, we can use $: startx &, this produce a X ~ windows, one can issue unix commands in this new window and the resulting windows are resizable and removable.

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Thursday, April 20, 2006

An easier way to draw dots in xfig

1. Zoom canvas to 8;
2. choose Circle/ellips button;
3. Choose attribute (Fill style: black) at the bottom, and choose (Point posn: any);
4. click at which you want. and move a little bit to form a dot.

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