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From: rloper@mksol.dseg.ti.com (robert l loper)
Subject: Re: What's the best PC X terminal software? Deskview X, Windows X?
Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 07:42:22 GMT

On a similar note, is their any way to run an OS/2 2.0 X server program
over a modem and/or Ethernet?  (Having DOS/ Windoze, and X all on the 
same screen really sounds appealing)  Does the Os/2 TC/PIP package support
this at all?

Thanx...

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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xdm/pseudoReset problem ?
Date: 13 Dec 1992 17:40:24 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com
Keywords: xdm

In article <1992Dec12.015157.25885@colorado.edu> robh@eclipse.cs.colorado.edu (Robert G Henderson) writes:
>If you start a client without a geometry and don't "place" the
>window, you are logged out after about 10 minutes.

xdm tries to detect dead X servers by periodically sending an X request to
them and seeing whether it replies (search for "ping" in xdm(1)).

By default, when twm is interacting with the user (e.g. popping up a menu,
displaying a placement rectangle), it grabs the server so that no other
client can use it.

This grab prevents the server from responding to the ping, so xdm resets
it.

A simple fix is to put "NoGrabServer" in the .twmrc file.  You can also
change the PingTimeout resource in the xdm configuration file.

Personally, I use RandomPlacement.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: mppa3@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Alan Richardson)
Subject: xvertext available in comp.sources.misc
Organization: Sterling Software
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 20:48:25 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 4f979bb9aba98b1d3fbbc7afb3ff57c0

      NOW AVAILABLE
      -------------
      Posted to comp.sources.misc : xvertext version 2.0
      ----------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^-----------------------

      This is a package of functions to facilitate the writing of
vertical and upside down text in an X window, which can be included in your
program or archived into a linking library. Also includes an example
program.

      Two beta test versions were released recently to alt.sources;
this release addresses many comments I recieved since then.

      Thanks for listening!

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From: amit@point.cs.uwm.edu (Amit Srivastava)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: comp.graphics
Date: 14 Dec 1992 18:55:17 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.5
Keywords: FillRules, XfillRule, enclosed regions


Hello,

Following are some of the problems I am facing:

1) I developed a recursive routine to perform a flood fill of an 
enclosed region, however, it fails for a very large region due to 
out of stack space.  I need a fill	
routine written in X, that will provide me following capabilities:

a) check if a (X,Y) point lies in an enclosed region
b) if it does, then fill the region

My implementation uses a clipmask as a bitmap and I am working on 
writing a routine to see if point X,Y lies in the enclosed region... 
I am using following X calls in my recursive floodfill routine:

XCreateImage ( to create XImage structure from the clipmask, 
	this needs to be done only once.)

XGetPixel    (from clipimage to see if pixel is set)
XPutPixel    (to put the pixel value in the clipimage
XDrawPixel   (to draw the pixel on the drawable)

I need an efficient routine to define enclosed region and check if 
the point falls within the enclosed region...

		Any help would be appreciated:
			-amit.	


Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: sacks@netmgr.mot.com (Dennis Sacks)
Subject: What xscreensaver does and does not do
Reply-To: sacks@panther.mot.com
Organization: Info Enterprises
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:17:30 GMT

I am using xscreensaver. The manual page is vague. Can I cause xscreensaver to 
"lock" the screen after a period of inactivity on the user's part?


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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: lgzanl@vax.nott.ac.uk (Andrew Leason)
Subject: Background
Reply-To: lgzanl@vax.nott.ac.uk (Andrew Leason)
Organization: University of Nottingham, UK
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 13:20:04 GMT


Dear net,

This should be straight forward. Is there an
entry for a file such as .Xdefaults which can
display an image file as the background for a
users session. There was recently a posting
in comp.unix.ultrix which gave the resources

*logoFile:
and
*logoFullScreen:

the documentation to which I couldn't find
and so there may be other similar resources.
I'm running on a DECstation 5000/200 with
Ultrix 4.2A

Thanks
Andy.

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Andrew Leason                       Department of Geography,
                                    University of Nottingham,
e-mail: lgzanl@uk.ac.nott.vax       United Kingdom.

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From: eanders+@CMU.EDU (Eric A. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: C++ toolkit -- graphlib-2 beta release
Date: 18 Dec 92 08:15:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.QfAVJHK00VQw0350ZP
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

A long time ago, I with a friend wrote the first version of graphlib,
we released it to the network, and it went out on the X11R5 contrib
tape.  On that tape  in the readme, I said we would be working on a
C++ version of the toolkit.  The other original author left school,
but I continued to work on the project.
I have now gotten all of the clients in the new version working as
well as the clients in the previous version so I am willing to make a
more public release.
I am considering this to be a beta release because I have not finished
very much of the documentation, and I have not checked on the
portability very much.

The most current copy of the library is available from
azathoth.sura.net:pub/x11r5/graphlib-*

I will be working on completing the documentation, but do not know
when that task will be complete.
If you retrieve the package, could you send me mail?  I am interested
to find out how many people get the program.  Also, if you have any
problems compiling the package, please send me mail detailing what
changes you had to make.  I'd like to make it as portable as possible.

If you have any questions about the toolkit, please ask me.

Excerpted from the README:
--
Graphlib is a graphics library designed to make X programming easy.
I have not yet achived this goal because the library is pretty incomplete, 
however when attempting to do those things which the library does currently
support, it is easy to write programs. 
--
Currently supported system types:
The program is known to compile under gcc 2.3.2 on the sun4.
It works with libg++2 under gcc2.3.2
--
It may still work with gcc1.xx and libg++1.xx, I don't know.  I
haven't tried it with them in a long time. I also haven't ever tried
compiling with cfront.
         -Eric 
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"Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out."
           -The Nine Billion Names of God
"Yes, you're very smart.  Shut up."
           -In "The Princess Bride"
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: koverber@cs.ulowell.edu (Kurt Overberg)
Subject: Re: setting DISPLAY env variable
Originator: koverber@bigmax.ulowell.edu
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:41:43 GMT


I believe there used to be (is) a program called "rhost".  This 
program will return the name of the computer that you are logged
in from.  So what I do is...

setenv DISPLAY `rhost`:0.0

from my login script.  This works fine, just make sure that
every computer you log into has the "rhost" command...


				peace out, 


				   kurt

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U of Mass, Lowell        | "Poke a double-decker on a Llama taboot,       
koverber@cs.ulowell.edu  |  Llama taboot, taboot!"      -Phish

Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:20333 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:15932
From: jarnot@kin.lap.upenn.edu (Kevin J. Jarnot)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: What's the best PC X terminal software? Deskview X, Windows X?
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:02:13 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.x
Organization: University of Pennsylvania, Language Analysis Center


I've been using Starnet's X-386 for 6 months now and love it.  Very
fast, and comes with support for most window managers.  X-386 is
DOS-based, but they also make one for MS Windows.

You can reach them at (408)739-0881 voice, or via email at
micro-x@starnet.com



Kevin
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From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Success! Eureka!  Cancel that last post...
Date: 12 Dec 92 10:48:34 GMT
Distribution: world

In <1jl47Z#4zGwVx9MyJTb4OKv6T0lY9bl=esr@snark.thyrsus.com> I wrote:
> With this posting, I am formally crying uncle.  X has baffled and defeated
> me.  I'm an expert C/UNIX programmer and I'm normally very good at picking
> up new interfaces quickly, but X's is sufficiently complex and this enough
> of a heisenbug that I can't get a grip on it.

There's good news and bad news.

The good news is that I got an attack of the stubborns, pulled an all-nighter,
and finally *solved this problem*!  My xlife now displays multi-state patterns
at any cell size.  Yeee-ha!

The bad news is that the way I found to make this work was to use a series of
XFillRectangle() calls in place of a single XFillRectangles().  I now believe
that there is a bug or undocumented limit in the generic XFillRectangles code
itself that was causing this problem.  'Ware hackers!
-- 
					Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: black@westford.ccur.com (Samuel Black)
Subject: Re: X in a Real-Time environment
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp.  Westford, MA
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:46:39 GMT

In article <254@visicom.com> trest@VisiCom.COM (Mike Trest) writes:

> I am trying to connect with others in the X community who have an
> interest in resolving the pratical problems of operating the very
> non-deterministic character of X and the need for determinism
> in real-time application.

After three years of design and development, Concurrent has just released
Version 1.0 of RealTimeX (tm), an extension to the X Window System designed
to handle the inherent non-deterministic nature of X.  Version 1.0 of
RealTimeX (tm) runs on RTU (Real-Time Unix), and consists of an X server,
a C library interface to the extension, and several utilities for system
tuning (including a priority manager and a real-time window manager).

		- sam

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From: stine@mdaris.mda.uth.tmc.edu (Robert Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Displaying X app on VAXstation 3100
Date: 17 Dec 1992 21:30:07 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.x
Organization: University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

This is probably documented somewhere but here goes...

I am trying to display an application running on a Sparc 2 on a VAXstation
3100/76 running VMS 5.5-2 and Motif 1.1.  When the image is run it displays
the following error messages.

XView warning: Cannot load font
'-b&h-lucida-medium-r-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*' (Font package)

XView warning: Cannot load font
'-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-sans-*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*' (Font package)

XView error: Cannot open connection to window server: DIMCC:0.0 (Server
package)

Xterm windows work fine but apparently this application is looking for a
font that is not defined somewhere. How do I define an alias to alleviate
this problem?  If anyone has any ideas it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Robert.
Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:20171 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:5597 comp.sys.sun.wanted:1994
From: tsv@elvis.msk.su (Igor P. Tsvetkovsky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.sys.sun.wanted
Subject: Sun Multicast Realization ?
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 92 19:21:52 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: unknown
Reply-To: tsv@elvis.msk.su


        In my work I need MULTICASTING. Does anybody know 
about MULTICAST realizations for SunOS 4.1.* ?
        Where can I get information about it?

        Thanks!

Igor Tsvetkovsky
ELVIS corp.

World  :  tsv@elvis.sovusa.com
ExUSSR :  tsv@elvis.msk.su



Newsgroups: fluke.micro,comp.windows.x
From: ardyk@tc.fluke.COM (Ardy Kong)
Subject: Running X-Windows software on a PC over a modem
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: x-windows PC
Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Everett, WA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:33:36 GMT

Can anyone describe the setup up for
running X-windows software over a modem
on a PC?
Thanks.

Ardy Kong
ardyk@tc.fluke.com
From: blin@groucho.gsb.columbia.edu (Bernard Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xwd pixmap files to bitmap files?
Date: 12 Dec 92 20:05:48 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Columbia Graduate School of Business, Columbia University


Hello,

I need to include some X screen dumps in documents, and I'm trying to
find some utility to capture screen and edit them.  I have a bitmap
editor, but no bitmap screen capture utility.  I use xwd to capture
the windows in pixmap format, but I don't know how to edit the dump
file.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

bl
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X client that just sits and waits?
Date: 16 Dec 92 04:21:18 GMT
	<1992Dec12.032847.12529@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com>
Organization: Human Communication Research Center
In-reply-to: ten0772@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com's message of 12 Dec 92 03:28:47 GMT

From article <1992Dec9.104532.24382@fwi.uva.nl>, by wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO)):

mw> I am looking for a very simple (X) program: one that just waits
mw> forever (until it gets killed). [to put at the end of .xinitrc.

Try xlogout. It just opens a window which is a button to push, when it
is pushed xlogout exits. You can then have a logout button somewhere
on your screen.

I have a program which I use for the same thing (I often have a buggy
WM...). It listens for key presses and does things when it sees them,
so meta-shift-L1 logs me out for instance. If anyone wants this, mail
me, it's fairly simple -- just XGrabKey's.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: daved@physiol.su.OZ.AU (Dave Davey)
Subject: what font is my xterm using?
Organization: Department of Physiology, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 22:26:31 GMT

I have a process that sometimes runs under sh in an xterm window, i.e. it is
not an X program, but is sometimes used under X.  I wish to know whether the
font in use by the xterm has the upper ISO characters (e.g. characters with
diacritical marks) so that I can use them if they are there.  How can I
determine what font the xterm is using to display the process?
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: william@bourbon.cs.ucla.edu (William Cheng)
Subject: Re: Why do people call it X-windowS?
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 04:06:49 GMT

In article <18161@autodesk.COM> dansmith@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Smith) writes:
>
>>      The X Consortium requests that the following names  be  used
>>      when referring to this software:
>>  
>>                                   X
>>                            X Window System
>>                              X Version 11
>>                      X Window System, Version 11
>>                                  X11
>
>	I've given up on trying to coerce people to say any of these.  It's
>just much easier to say "X Windows" and be done with it.  The usual argument
>I hear is along the lines of "well you're using more than one!", and the
>people that say that are absolutely right.
>
>	It's such a silly name with almost Zero meaning.  I wish it
>had been called "NetWindows", which is a lot more descriptive of what
>it can do.  "X" sounds so damn mysterious, like something out of James
>Bond.  I can buy the theory though, that nobody ever expected X to
>be so successful, and that a better name would have been chosen
>if that had been forseen.
>
>	Who came up with the name anyways?  They should be chased around
>in the snow at MIT's Tech Square by angry reindeer :-)

Most people who would want to call it "X Windows" or "something Windows"
are probably coming from the PC world where "MS Windows" is the king.
The X Consortium made the above request to remind people that it's not
"X Windows" because it's not just a collection of windows like the
"MS Windows".
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jnp@louise.daimi.aau.dk (J|rgen N|rgaard)
Subject: Re: XDM - now what?
Organization: DAIMI (Computer Science Department), Aarhus University, Denmark
Date: 19 Dec 92 15:24:14

In article <9kp2f0+@rpi.edu> redlel@barh1a.its.rpi.edu (Lorenz Wolfgang Redlefsen) writes:

>	   OK... supposing I get xdm fired up, and all... suppose I ever
>   want to do something like *gasp* stop it...? I have tried to do it by
>   su'ing, then killing the pid that ps -aux tells me corresponds to xdm.
>   Hmmmm... machine locks up. Ooops! Any ideas? (BTW, this is under linux 0.99,
>   and I run xdm using the -nodaemon flag.) 

Quoting "man xdm"; RTFM:
 .
 .
 .
CONTROLLING XDM
     Xdm responds to two signals: SIGHUP and SIGTERM.  When  sent
     a  SIGHUP,  xdm rereads the configuration file and the 1file
     specified by the DisplayManager.servers resource and notices
     if  entries  have been added or removed.  If a new entry has
     been added, xdm starts a session on the associated  display.
     Entries  which  have  been removed are disabled immediately,
     meaning that any session  in  progress  will  be  terminated
     without notice, and no new session will be started.

     When sent a SIGTERM, xdm terminates all sessions in progress
     and exits.  This can be used when shutting down the system.

     Xdm attempts to mark the various sub-processes for ps(1)  by
     editing  the  command  line argument list in place.  Because
     xdm can't allocate additional space for  this  task,  it  is
     useful  to start xdm with a reasonably long command line (15
     to 20 characters should be enough).  Each process  which  is
     servicing a display is marked "-<Display-Name>".


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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
From: wjohnson@nmsu.edu (Wilbur Johnson)
Subject: Motif for X11R5
Keywords: X11R5 Motif
Reply-To: wjohnson@nmsu.edu
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:03:52 GMT

Whats the story on Motif for X11R5? Is it available yet?

---
Wilbur R. Johnson
From: hb@woody.csd.uu.se (Henrik B}kman  CSD)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Shared libraries
Date: 14 Dec 1992 10:42:15 GMT
Organization: Uppsala University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: woody.csd.uu.se

Hello.

Shared libraries in motif 1.2.1 seems not to be supported.
Is there any unsupported way to build them on sunos 4.1.2
and/or hpux 8.07? The binaries are really EATING disk...


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Uppsala University
From: mbell@csc.liv.ac.uk (Mike Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: FileSelectionDialog Settings
Date: 19 Dec 92 00:35:00 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University

Hi,

Fairly simple question,

I want to get the XmNpattern and XmNdirectory settings for my
FileSelectionDialog - is there an easy way without writing a
XmNqualifySearchDataProc??? Can I just set them???

Thanks

Mike
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Problems resizing DrawingArea
From: sandra@trident.datasys.swri.edu (Sandra McCowan)
Date: 18 Dec 92 15:44:55 GMT
Organization: Southwest Research Institute



I have a DrawingArea widget that is a child of another DrawingArea (it's
a token that is moved/resized within the application).  Before mapping the
child DrawingArea, I call XtSetArg() and XtSetValues() with the new width and 
height, but they are not updated.  If I replace these calls with 
XResizeWindow(), eveything works fine ... does anyone know why????

I have the same problem setting new x and y values.  I have to call
XMoveWindow() explicitly.


Sandra McCowan
sandra@trident.datasys.swri.edu

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.x,comp.gnu.g++.help
From: yhtao@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Yu-Hui Tao)
Subject: Xt Warning: Cannot find callbacklistin XtAddCallbacks!!!
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 17:31:47 GMT

Dear netters:

  **** MOTIF/G++ experienced users: PLEASE  HELP!! ******

   I got a run-time warning when running motif programs compilled by 
GCC or G++ as follows (I remembered seeing this question before!):

    Toolkit Warning: Cannot find callback list in XtAddCallbacks

   (Evnironment: DECstation 3100, Ultrix 4.2, Motif 1.1, gcc(g++) 2.2.2) 

   For Douglas Young's "stopwatch" example, everything is shown on the screen
but, as expected from the warning above, nothing happened after I push the 
button. 

   For my own more complex C/MOTIF porgram, in addition to that as above, all
the user interface components got messed up (kinda tight together). It ran 
just fine when compiled with DEC CC.


   Also DECstation users: Do I need to change any Xm header files, as WWL does?


   I deeply appreciate those who knows can help!!

Yu-Hui Tao
ISE, OSU
tao@CSEL.eng.ohio-state.edu
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