INTRODUCTION

XTickertape is a scrolling one-line window of event notifications, providing you with information from many sources in a minimum of screen space. It is built on top of the Elvin notification service and can be used to monitor computational activites or simply to chat with other tickertape users.

PREREQUISITES

In order to compile XTickertape you will need X11, Motif or lesstif, and the aforementioned Elvin notification service. Additionally, if you want to be able to view MIME attachments you will need to have metamail installed. The following URLs may be of use:

Metamail: ftp://thumper.bellcore.com/pub/nsb/mm2.7.tar.Z

Elvin: http://elvin.dstc.com/

Lesstif: http://www.lesstif.org/

X11 http://www.x.org/ http://www.xfree86.org/

INSTALLATION

The quick way:

./configure make make install

By default, xtickertape installs itself in /usr/local which means that it will be unable to access its app-defaults file unless your XFILESEARCHPATH environment variable is set to something like /usr/local/lib/X11/%T/%N:%D (see the man page for XtResolvePathname for more information on XFILESEARCHPATH). The other alternative is to install xtickertape in the X tree (--prefix=/usr on most platforms, --prefix=/usr/openwin on Solaris, --prefix=/usr/X11R6 on Linux).

For more information on installation see the INSTALL file in this directory.