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From: deveau@oceanroutes.ns.ca ("Terry J. Deveau")
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Keyboard input with X
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:33:48 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Oceanroutes Canada Inc.

Message-Id: <9208172009.AA24116@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 17:09:31 ADT
Phone: (902) 468-3007, FAX: (902) 468-3009
Mailer: Elm [revision: 64.9]

> 
> Can someone tell me how to determine which keys have been pressed w/i and X
> program? 
> 
> The book I'm using says to use the function XLookupString() in the
> event->xkey.keycode structure, BUT it doesn;t say how to. I wrote this code to
> determine if the last key pressed was a space, but all my attempts end with a seg
> fault....
> 
> 
>   if (XLookupString (event->xkey.keycode) == ' ')
>     {
>       etc.
>     } 
> 
> I would be grateful for any insight into this problem someone can give me.
> 
The following will give you an idea of how I do it; sorry about not sending
a piece of actual working code, but I pulled this together from a more
complex function.

  char cmd[80], *ptr, *ptrc, *chr;
  Window win;
  XSetWindowAttributes Wattrib;
  XGCValues GCval;
  GC GCa;
  XCharStruct extent;
  XEvent evnt;
  long compse[5];
  XSizeHints szHints;
  KeySym ks;

    XNextEvent (dsp, &evnt);
    switch (evnt.type) {
      case ButtonPress : XRaiseWindow (dsp, win); break;
      case KeyPress : nc = XLookupString (&(evnt.xkey),cmd,sizeof cmd,NULL,compse);
        if (!str) { nc = -1; break; }
        if (IsCursorKey(ks=XLookupKeysym(&(evnt.xkey),0))) {
          int in, jn, go = 1, k = -1, kn, i, j, nch=0, ich[10];

          switch (ks) {
            case XK_Up : if (sz==1) { k = 0; kn = 1; } break;
            case XK_Down : if (sz==1) { k = data->nopt-1; kn = -1; } break;
            case XK_Right : if (sz>1) { ... }
              break;
            case XK_Left : if (sz>1) { ... }
              break;
          } }
        else {
          switch (ks) {
            case XK_Delete :
            case XK_DeleteChar : if (sz>1) { ... }
              break; 
          default :
          for (chr=cmd; chr-cmd<nc; chr++) {
            switch (*chr) {
              case '\b' : ...
                break;
              case '\r' : nc = -1; break;
              default : if (ptr-str==sz) XBell (dsp, 100);
                else {
                  if (sz>1) { ... }
                  else if (NULL==strchr(str,*chr)) XBell (dsp, 100);
                  else {
                    *str = *chr;
                    nc = -1; } } } } } }
        break;
      case MappingNotify : XRefreshKeyboardMapping (&(evnt.xmapping)); break;
      case Expose : if (!evnt.xexpose.count) {
          paintWindow(dsp, win, &GCa, data);
          if (str && sz>1) {
            XSetForeground (dsp, GCa, colour_text);
            XDrawString (dsp, win, GCa, left, line, str, ptr-str);
            XSetForeground (dsp, GCa, colour_cursor);
            XDrawString (dsp, win, GCa, cursor-2, line, "_", 1); } }
        break; }
From: gml4410@ggr.co.uk (Lack Mr G M)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Cart before the horse??
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:40:01 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Via: uk.co.ggr; Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:46:34 +0100
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 14:41:02 BST
Message-Id: <9209031341.AA05081@uk0x06.ggr.gri.com>

> From: skok@itwds1.energietechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Holger Skok)
> Organization: Inst. f. Thermodynamik u. Waermetechnik (ITW), U. of Stuttgart, 
>               FRG
>...
> Yeah, not a bad idea. But STANDARDIZE it!
>...
> It's bad enough to have to learn different sets of commands for
> different OS's. But it's far worse to have to grapple with different
> design and interfacing concepts for GUI's.

     WRONG!!!   You  should  let the *users* standardize it as each sees
fit.   That  means  make  it  as  configurable  as  possible,  but  with
reasonable (and well documented) defaults. 


-------------------------- Gordon Lack ----------------------------------
The contents of this message *may* reflect my personal opinion.  They are
*not* intended to reflect those of my employer, or anyone else."
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Xauthority file
Date: 29 Aug 92 14:47:28 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA

Date: 29 Aug 1992 05:19:22 GMT
Message-Id: <17n1cqINN283@early-bird.think.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <BtpxEv.47n@agora.rain.com> bobb@agora.rain.com (Bob Beauchemin) writes:
>  But the FOO program (Host B) is using Xau, which does fread(). The
>.Xauthority file is on Host A. How is this accomplished without the use of
>NFS? Or is NFS a strict requirement?

NFS simplifies things, but it's not a requirement.  You can use any
mechanism you like to copy the authority information from your .Xauthority
file on Host A to the one on Host B.  The xauth command can be useful for
this; see the example in the xauth man page.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
From: hstroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Howard Stroyan)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: multiple screens (display), single pointing device....
Date: 1 Sep 92 07:51:50 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA

Date: 31 Aug 92 21:10:58 GMT
Message-Id: <7320045@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In comp.windows.x, christia@latenite.ssc.gov (Mike Christiansen) writes:

> Is it possible under R5 to support multiple displays using a single
> mouse / pointer. That is, like the mac I want to install two (or
> three) frame buffers and manipulate windows on all three through a
> single pointer such that the cursor is run into the side of one, it
> apperars on the next longical display. Is this possible under
> open-look?

I suspect this is a vendor specific option.  
This type of configuration is available on HP workstations.
To set it up you list multiply display device files in the 
/usr/lib/X11/X0screens file. 
The screens are be addressable as <hostname>:0.0 , <hostname>:0.1,
and so forth.  Note that in this mode the cursor can be moved
from screen the screen but windows can't.  (Nor can they 
be made to straddle two screens).

--
Howard Stroyan                                         
Hewlett-Packard                                        hstroyan@fc.hp.com
User Interface Technology Division
From: liuxu@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Xudong Liu)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: help on transfig
Date: 2 Sep 92 03:31:16 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA

Date: 1 Sep 92 22:49:45 GMT
Message-Id: <Btx8qx.3wE@vuse.vanderbilt.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Is there anybody got the package "transfig" recently and had it 
installed for Sun workstation? I kept getting error messages in
compilation and just couldn't use it. However, the command
"transfig-sun3" was produced by 'make'. But things still not working.

I will appreciate if sombody can send me the procedures that lead
to the correct installation.
From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: GUIs Considered Harmful
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:19:08 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Alfalfa Software, Inc.

Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 01:15:11 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Sep2.011511.18056@alphalpha.com>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.computers,comp.windows.misc,comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x,comp.human-factors

lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes:
: I think the difference is that the OPEN LOOK UI was designed.  Very carefully.
: By people with experience.  And _then_ implemented.  Motif was implemented
: without any real specification, as I understand it, and it shows.
There was a specification for the L&F before the toolkit was written.
It is not as detailed as the OL one, but it exists and it details things
to the level that you are discussing.  The OL stuff was designed more
carefully in advance, however some of that design (scroll bars for instance)
seems to have been done explicitly to avoid looking like the Mac.  You win
some, you lose some.

-- 
						nazgul@alfalfa.com

I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
From: sue@byron.u.washington.edu (Shu-Chen Eclipse)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: where can I find documents/help for nlock?
Date: 29 Aug 92 15:00:37 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Date: 29 Aug 92 07:53:48 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug29.075348.21834@u.washington.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


 where can I find help/docs for nlock?

sue@byron.u.washington.edu
thanx
From: mahan@TGV.COM (Patrick L. Mahan)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: RE: Getting Paned Window to tile horizontaly ...
Date: 31 Aug 92 18:50:24 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date:    Mon, 31 Aug 92 10:04:33 PDT
Message-Id: <920831100433.254000b0@TGV.COM>
X-St-Vmsmail-To: ST%"xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu"

#
#		Is it possible to get PanedWindow to lay out children
#in a HORIZONTALY tiled format ? I need two frames side by side and
#I want to allow the user to resize the two frames with a PanedWindow
#or anything similar to it.
#

1) Get X11R4 or X11R5.

2) Look at the documentation for the Paned Widget really closely.  You will
find that it supports both modes.

Patrick L. Mahan

--- TGV Window Washer ------------------------------- Mahan@TGV.COM ---------

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered  - Lazarus Long
a capital crime.  For a first offense, that is            From the Notebooks of
							  Lazarus Long
From: gohel@sunburn.ec.usf.edu (Himanshu Gohel (CS))
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Help: XGL linking problems!
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:38:12 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Univ. of South Florida, College of Engineering

Date: 25 Aug 92 15:55:30 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug25.155530.4164@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.openlook

Hi!

We just got a new IPC with OW3.  I'm trying to compile xgl programs
on that system.   But program that used to compile on other machines
don't seem to under OW3 (XGL RTE 2.0?)

Even the examples provided in XGLHOME give this error:

ld: Undefined symbol
   _compute_2d_wc_crv_interval
   _compute_2d_vdc_crv_interval
   _xgli_nu_compute_2d_nurb_basis_function
   _compute_3d_wc_crv_interval
   _compute_3d_vdc_crv_interval
   _xgli_nu_compute_3d_nurb_basis_function
*** Error code 2 
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `ant' 
sunny{gohel}122:  

Any ideas as to what might be wrong?

Himanshu
--
--
Himanshu Gohel, gohel@suntan.ec.usf.edu
University of South Florida,
USF 3140, Tampa, FL 33620-3140
From: matt@centerline.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: OPEN INTERFACE ?
Date: 28 Aug 92 01:56:07 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.

Date: 27 Aug 92 20:56:18 GMT
Message-Id: <matt.714948978@centerline.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.x

In <914ep5z@Unify.Com> grp@Unify.com (Greg Pasquariello) writes:
>I actually looked at Solbourne's OI about two years ago when it was in beta.  
>It was quite impressive, but we decided to go with an intrinsics based toolkit
>instead, mainly because the company was new at this GUI stuff. 

But neither OIT nor Galaxy *is* and instrinsics-based toolkit!  Like 
OI , they both reimplement the X11 gui styles on top of Xlib.  I'm not 
sure what they do on other platforms.

Or did you mean that you changed your minds about the requirement 
for an intrinsics-based toolkit?
From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: X11R5 binaries for Sun-3 wanted
Date: 29 Aug 92 04:23:01 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:01:30 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug28.170130.7529@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Does anyone have SunOS 4.1.1 binaries of X11R5 for the sun3 architecture
available by anonymous FTP?  I searched archie, but found nothing on this
continent.  I have a 3/60, and don't want to run Sunview.

-- 
-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-
From: ware@organ.cis.ohio-state.edu (Peter Ware)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: What would this window obscure?
Date: 3 Sep 92 19:45:33 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Ohio State Computer Science

Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 18:55:01 GMT
Message-Id: <WARE.92Sep3135501@organ.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <1992Sep3.154113.10359@cam-orl.co.uk> thg@cam-orl.co.uk
(Tim Glauert) writes:

   ...
   Actually, it isn't, since the server has a lot of freedom about
   exacty which areas it returns in an expose event. It is allowed to
   generate expose events which cover obscured parts of a window and
   it is allowed to generate expose events on areas which are already
   visible. It is legal within the protocol specification for the
   server to send a single expose event covering the whole of a window
   whenever any part of it is uncovered.
   ...

Pardon the technitrivia, but are you sure the server is allowed to
generate expose events for visible regions?  This would make it
impossible for an application using a graphics function like XOR to
function properly.

If you meant that it can generate an Expose event but must clear it to
the background then that sounds reasonable.  In fact, I know the MIT server
already does this if an operation causes more then 25 regions to be
exposed -- they get combined into one region and cleared to the background.

--pete
--
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           ware@cis.ohio-state.edu
           (614) 538-0965
Too bad the Nike slogan isn't "Just Do It Right" instead of "Just Do It"
From: frite@vlsi.polymtl.ca), (Michel Besner)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Getting Paned Window to tile horizontaly ...
Date: 29 Aug 92 12:09:47 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, lab. INFO

Date: 27 Aug 92 17:06:00 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug27.170600.8600@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x



	Hi there !

		Is it possible to get PanedWindow to lay out children
in a HORIZONTALY tiled format ? I need two frames side by side and
I want to allow the user to resize the two frames with a PanedWindow
or anything similar to it.

	Any suggestions is appreciated :) :)


				Michel Besner, eng.
				Sacred Heart Hospital 
				research center
				Montreal
				mbesner@iris1.metal.polymtl.ca



	"life is a big bowl of Jell-O :) :) ! "
From: melby@dove.yk.Fujitsu.co.jp (John B. Melby)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: bitmap format
Date: 3 Sep 92 12:05:48 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Open Systems Dept. Div. 2 Sect. 1, FUJITSU LTD.

Date: 3 Sep 92 08:15:30 GMT
Message-Id: <MELBY.92Sep3081530@dove.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

>Where can I find a description of the bitmap format?

The same question twice in a week...anyway, this should be sufficient:

An X11 bitmap file specifies the height, width, and hot spot (used for
setting mouse cursors) of a bitmap, followed by the bitmap data
(expressed as an array of unsigned character values in hexadecimal).

A bitmap contains <height> lines of binary data arranged from top to
bottom.  Each line is expressed with roof(<width>/8) character values
specifying the bits from left to right, smallest bit first.

-----
John B. Melby
Fujitsu Limited, Yokohama
melby%yk.fujitsu.co.jp@fai.com
From: rickg@eng.sun.com (Richard M. "The Tankster" Goldstein)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Xview3
Date: 29 Aug 92 01:27:01 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: SunSoft, Inc.

Date: 28 Aug 92 16:19:49 GMT
Message-Id: <RICKG.92Aug28091949@irondude.eng.sun.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


   Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
   From: shelby@convex.com (Mark Shelby)
   Organization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA
   Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:28:56 GMT

   I have some code that is core dumping (inward ring address
   error).

   The code actual bombs in "attr_find", but that routine works
   correctly when called from other routines. I was wondering
   if anyone has used "cursor_copy" call with no ill affects. I am 
   using Xview3 libraries from mit.

   Here is look at the stack trace.  Thanks for any leads.


bug.  here's a fixed version of the function, if you
need it:

 
	Xv_Cursor
	cursor_copy(cursor_public)
	    Xv_Cursor cursor_public;
	{
	    return xv_create(xv_get(cursor_public,XV_OWNER),CURSOR,
	                     XV_COPY_OF,cursor_public,NULL);
	}


<<tank
--

*********************************************************************

	Richard M. "Tank" Goldstein		rickg@Eng.Sun.COM
	Window Developer Environment,
	SunSoft, Inc.

	"I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind
	of person I'm preaching to"

				-"Bob" in Newsweek

*********************************************************************
From: frans@kiwi.uia.ac.be (Francois Staes)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: XDM configuration question
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:43:32 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Antwerp

Date: 25 Aug 92 13:47:29 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug25.134729.4980@reks.uia.ac.be>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Can anybody tell me whether the xdm-config file gets passed through cpp or not.
In particular, I would like to make parts of it conditional on the hostname of the
current system. Our configuration files are NFS exported to some workstations, and
I would like to conserve that part of the configuration while having the possibility
to adjust some xdm configuration settings per host.

Thanks,

Francois Staes
University of Antwerp
Antwerp, Belgium
Email: frans@kiwi.uia.ac.be
From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Choosing colors  for X11 - a palette ?
Date: 29 Aug 92 11:09:19 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Intel Corporation

Date: 28 Aug 92 21:17:20 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug28.211720.18922@ichips.intel.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps


In article <17m0c4INN977@agate.berkeley.edu>, desouza@asmara.berkeley.edu (Paulo de Souza) writes:
> I seen on some DEC and IBM machines a palette that lets you move a
> stick around and choose a color giving you (in another part of the
> window) the combo of Red-Green-Blue that you need to match that
> color.
> 
> Does anybody knows if such a thing is available for X11 (for example
> on a Sparc Station) ? And where one could find it ?
> 
> Paulo Ney                                desouza@math.berkeley.edu

  I use the ColEdit menu in xv-2.21. I use the grab function to select a single
color (eg., from xterm -bg black), then use ColEdit to change the color of the
color cell. The RGB dials display the decimal value of the colors.

  If you are interested in contrasts between two colors, or of text on a page,
use the mouse to highlight half of the xterm (text selection), then grab a
square that has both the highlight and the unhilighted colors, and play with the
two color cells.

  If you do the highlight trick with text in both regions, you get a better
feeling for reverse-video effects with text and colors.

  That xv, a really nice tool, thanks to John Bradley.

    Cheers,

    Tom McConnell
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From: ghawkins@unix1.tcd.ie ("George C. Hawkins")
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: is there a nicer Grip widget than the Athena one?
Date: 21 Aug 92 19:14:47 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

Date: 17 Aug 92 21:34:07 GMT
Message-Id: <ghawkins.714087247@unix1.tcd.ie>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif


I am just looking for a nice Grip widget (handle for all you normal
people).  The one supplied in the Athena widget set is fairly
minimal. Is there any way for example to write a widget that can
move cleaning up after it and so avoid generating expose events
that get sent to the widget it's on top of (this is very iritating
with the Grip, it's tiny but as I move it about the DrawingArea
widget, I have below, a redraw routine has to be called for each
little tiny square it leaves behind, and I don't want to double
buffer my DrawingArea).

Thanks for your time, yours,


George.

--
george lives at:
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From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Converting Window ID to Widget
Date: 1 Sep 92 08:35:08 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany

Date: 1 Sep 92 06:48:31 GMT
Message-Id: <17v3nvINNl0v@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <1992Aug31.212218.11573@sparky.imd.sterling.com>,
dave@IMD.Sterling.COM (Dave Krejci) writes:
|> My problem is that I haven't been able to find
|> a way to convert a window ID into a toplevel widget name.

XtWindowToWidget()

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From: frite@vlsi.polymtl.ca), (Michel Besner)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Getting Paned Window to tile horizontaly ...
Date: 29 Aug 92 07:43:59 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, lab. INFO

Date: 27 Aug 92 17:06:00 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug27.170600.8600@vlsi.polymtl.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x



	Hi there !

		Is it possible to get PanedWindow to lay out children
in a HORIZONTALY tiled format ? I need two frames side by side and
I want to allow the user to resize the two frames with a PanedWindow
or anything similar to it.

	Any suggestions is appreciated :) :)


				Michel Besner, eng.
				Sacred Heart Hospital 
				research center
				Montreal
				mbesner@iris1.metal.polymtl.ca



	"life is a big bowl of Jell-O :) :) ! "
From: wkrebs@uhuru.uchicago.edu (Werner Krebs)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Dirt Cheap LAN X-Server for MSDOS? (may be FAQ)
Date: 30 Aug 92 04:28:37 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Chicago

Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 00:41:35 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug30.004135.28554@midway.uchicago.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Hello world.

My apologies if this is FAQ.

One of my colleagues is looking for an X-Server for MS-DOS in order to
use X-Windows over a LAN and has asked me to post this for him.
Since X386 is available from MIT for free provided your platform is
Unix, the ca. $400 pricetag for the commercial programs he's
encountered seems a bit steep. Granted, most of these programs do more
than act simply as a X-Server over ethernet, but is there a
commercial/shareware/freeware alternative that's dirt cheap (<$100)
that does what he wants? If not, what's the best he can do? 

Please send responses by email. I'll summarize if there's interest.

Thanks in advance.
-- 

Werner Krebs            internet: wkrebs@uhuru.uchicago.edu