Using eXceed

Here are some tips for using eXceed, an X-Windows emmulator for the PC.

Starting eXceed

eXceed must be running in order to start any x-clients or send any X-windows displays to the computer. You can start it by running the "eXceed" program item (in program manager or from the start button). Or, you can start it by using Xstart program to start a client. when you try to start a client it will check to see if eXceed is running. If not, it will start it and continue.

Xstart

This utility can start any program running on any computer on the internet. It is usually used to launch X-windows applications from workstations. More specifically, it is usually used to start xterms, DECterms, or even winterms on Unix and VMS workstations.

The user ID is the account name you want to use on the specified host. You usually want that to be your account name.

Host is the internet address of the host computer, like uihep1.hep.uiuc.edu, hepux1.hep.uiuc.edu, da831.fnal.gov, or fdei01.fnal.gov. If running eXceed on a computer at Fermilab, you can leave off the .fnal.gov postfix, and if you're using eXceed on Tethys you can leave off .hep.uiuc.edu.

Password is your password. You probably don't want to fill this in before running the X client, since if you save it or just walk away, others can use it.

The command is the actual command to run on the host computer. Here are some suggestions:

For E831 computers like da831 and FNALU computers like fdei01:
xterm -d @d -ls -sb -sl 1000 -name da831
-d @d indicates your display.
-ls causes your .login to be processed.
-sb -sl 1000 tells it to use a scroll bar, with 1000 lines of recall.
-name da831 is the window's name. You can use this if you want to better keep track of your windows.
For hepux1, 2, and 4:
/usr/bin/X11/xterm -d @d -ls -sb -sl 1000 -name hepux1
The only difference here is that you need to specify the full path name of the xterm command for some reason.
For UIHEP1 or other UIHEP VMS computers,
@[cac.bin]decterm @a UIHEP1
decterm.com is a simple DCL script that you can use, or copy into your own area, modify and use. It takes 2 arguments. The first is the display name of the machine (@a is the display name without ":0" at the end, but @d includes the ":0"). The second argument is the window title, DECterm if you only provide 1 argument.

The Prompt options control whether or not a prompt comes up when you start the command asking for maybe your password, or even more. If you don't fill in the password entry, choose the "login info" prompt.

The Connection... dialog box contains more obscure options. You may need to give generous timeout times for the VMS computers, like 1 min connect time, and 30 sec close time. I like to select Show progress , but not Show host reply (unless it's not working and I want to knw why).

Running the Command

There is more than one way to run it.

You can type in all the information in the boxes (except maybe for password) and select the "Run" menu item. You could also use File->Open... to get the right info in the entry boxes, possibly modify it a bit, and select Run.

You can run a saved command with the menu item File->Run... . Selecting this will give you a list of .xs files. You can double-click on them to run them.

If you're using Windows 4.0 (not at Wideband :-( ) you can run a .xs file by double-clicking on it in the file view windows. You can make aliases of them onto the desktop, or into the start menu.

Cutting and pasting from X-windows to Windows

Windows has a "clipboard" in memory at all times, and almost every Windows application has an Edit menu with Copy and Paste commands in it. Usual shortcuts are Ctrl-c or for copy and Ctrl-v for paste, although these vary from application to application.

X-windows has a seperate clipboard (called the X selection in this case) in memory. Selecting text with the mouse automatically copies the selected text to the "clipboard", and the middle mouse button usually performs a paste.

eXceed keeps these clipboards seperate, but you can transfer data from one to the other by clicking on the eXceed icon with the RIGHT mouse button and following Edit->...

Goofy configure options:

A configuration options window can be activated by right-clicking on the eXceed icon and selecting Tools->configuration. The item that you may need to adjust on occasion here is Input.

To emmulate the Digital keyboards the best (for DECterms on UIHEP_) you will want to select decemus.kbf as the Keyboard file. I also reccomend Alt Key: To X and Shift Key: Map Both Left and Right.

Numlock should now function as PF1, although on Wideband computers you may have to hit it twice each time. I think this can be fixed by editing the keyboard file. In the edit dialog box, select the Edit->Settings... menu item. Yet another dialog box appears, where you can check-mark NumLock in the unlatch box (best to leave the others on-checked). You will then need to save the keyboard file (you could call it something new like decemus_numlock.kbf), and select it.

Last modified: Tue Mar 11 17:57:39 1997