1.18 Fractint on Unix
Fractint has been ported to Unix to run under X Windows. This version
is called "Xfractint". Xfractint may be obtained by anonymous ftp, see
Distribution of Fractint (p. 195).
Xfractint is still under development and is not as reliable as the IBM
PC version.
Contact xfractint@fractint.org for more information on Xfractint.
Xfractint is a straight port of the IBM PC version. Thus, it uses the
IBM user interface. If you do not have function keys, or Xfractint does
not accept them from your keyboard, use the following key mappings:
IBM Unix
F1 to F10 Shift-1 to Shift-0
INSERT I
DELETE D
PAGE_UP U
PAGE_DOWN N
LEFT_ARROW H
RIGHT_ARROW L
UP_ARROW K
DOWN_ARROW J
HOME O
END E
CTL_PLUS }
CTL_MINUS {
Xfractint takes the following options:
-onroot
Puts the image on the root window.
-fast
Uses a faster drawing technique.
-disk
Uses disk video.
-geometry WxH[{+-X}{+-Y}]
Changes the geometry of the image window.
-display displayname
Specifies the X11 display to use.
-private
Allocates the entire colormap (i.e. more colors).
-share
Shares the current colormap.
-fixcolors n
Uses only n colors.
-slowdisplay
Prevents Xfractint from hanging on the title page with slow displays.
-simple
Uses simpler keyboard handling, which makes debugging easier.
Common problems:
If you get the message "Couldn't find fractint.hlp", you can
a) Do "setenv FRACTDIR /foo", replacing /foo with the directory
containing fractint.hlp.
b) Run Xfractint from the directory containing fractint.hlp, or
c) Copy fractint.hlp to /usr/local/bin/X11/fractint
If you get the message "Invalid help signature", the problem is due to
byteorder. You are probably using a Sun help file on a Dec machine or
vice versa.
If Xfractint doesn't accept input, try typing into both the graphics
window and the text window. On some systems, only one of these works.
If you are using Openwindows and can't get Xfractint to accept input,
add to your .Xdefaults file:
OpenWindows.FocusLenience: True
If you cannot view the GIFs that Xfractint creates, the problem is that
Xfractint creates GIF89a format and your viewer probably only handles
GIF87a format. Run "xfractint gif87a=y" to produce GIF87a format.
Because many shifted characters are used to simulate IBM keys, you can't
enter capitalized filenames.