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A 6-post collection

Enhanced X11 Keyboard

Well, after living with the default keyboard mapping for Genera under X-Windows, I decided to make an optimized one for an 87-key ANSI layout. The design goals were: Utilize all the 16 top row keys … »

Douglas Fields Douglas Fields on symbolics, genera, keyboard, x11 20 July 2016

Genera Xquartz Keyboard

It has taken some effort, but I finally created a reasonable (and close-to-default) keyboard layout and mapping for Genera for using a modern, 87-key “tenkeyless” keyboard under Xquartz. I … »

Douglas Fields Douglas Fields on symbolics, macivory, x11, screenshot, keyboard 17 July 2016

MacIvory III Setup and X11

As I haven’t had the time to continue to debug the XL1201 hardware problems, I turned back to the MacIvory III and an Intel i7 NUC I had. First I set up Ubuntu 14.04 on the NUC with NFS and the … »

Douglas Fields Douglas Fields on symbolics, genera, x11, macivory, screenshot 12 July 2016

Genera X11 Fonts on Mac

Although away, I have my laptop with me and decided to try to get Xquartz running with the Genera X11 fonts. Find the Genera X11 fonts (in bdf format) and transfer them to your Mac. I put them in … »

Douglas Fields Douglas Fields on genera, x11, xquartz, font 03 July 2016

Autoboot Serial/Telnet and X

I’ve decided to take a minor detour when I get back from the gaming convention to make a disk image for someone with an XL400 without a working console. My goal here will be to make a world … »

Douglas Fields Douglas Fields on genera, serial, telnet, x11, xl400, fep 02 July 2016

Displaying Genera on iMac

Well, on a whim I decided to see if I could get Genera running on my iMac’s X display. (This way I can spare the 3620 Console from use while I figure out how to recap it.) It was a frustrating … »

Douglas Fields Douglas Fields on screenshot, genera, x11 29 June 2016
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