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nxdsktop help

Contains details on how to use the nxdsktop dekstop environment and its subprojects such as nxjpeg.

Starting

Check Nano X on ELKS and Troubleshooting

Quick keyboard shortcuts

• CTRL+A - force closes nxdsktop and Nano X
• While viewing/editing a text file:
  • CTRL+X - closes an open file in text editor. The editor will propose to save the file.
  • CTRL+W - save file

Editing a file

By default the edit editor is used, but this can be changed to vi for example. In ELKS edit is a clone of Mined editor from Minix. The vi in ELKS is a version of Elvis editor which is clone of vi. Here is a complete list of commands of edit/mined, currently the default editor in nxdsktop.

Viewing images (draft)

There are 3 color modes:

• 4 color gray
• 8 color gray
• 16 color EGA

There are 3 levels of smoothing, level 1 is the default. There are also 2 modes of rendering - per MCU and per band.

Limitations

• You can not use more than one select or message box dialog in the same time
• All applications and dialogs will be on top of the start menu (can not be improved)
• Using nxjpeg with 8 gray colors will affect an already rendered jpg image in 16 colors
• Currently "view .jpg 8 color gray" is unsupported on PC-98