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From: abm@alan.aux.apple.com (Alan Mimms)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Not impressed with MacX
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Date: 1 Dec 90 06:08:02 GMT
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In article <2776@redstar.cs.qmw.ac.uk>, liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts) writes:
|> My only "purist" complaint about MacX is that it tells lies: the information 
|> returned when you make a connection always claims to support colour (and may 
|> even lie about the screen size). The Mac system knows the truth, so why 
|> doesn't MacX?

Because MacX can display output from color-only clients (of which there
are a FEW) on a monochrome screen (either depth converting or not) it
is pretty reasonable to lie about this.  Especially since MacX is
set up to permit choice of color or monochrome visuals by choice of
"screen number".

|> 
|> My non-purist complaint is that MacX doesn't seem able to use the fonts 
|> already installed in the System, requiring you instead to duplicate everything.

I would suggest you RTFM.  MacX has full support of the System file's
fonts, available and reorderd into ISO-Latin/1 for you as you like.
You can assign them X-style names using the Font Director's alias functionality or use them using the normal MacX
naming convention for the (i.e., "Chicago-12").

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