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From: bentrup@cs.uiuc.edu (John Bentrup)
Subject: X11R3 error message explanation
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:36:25 GMT


In trying to get X11R3 running on an IBM-RT(AIX) with only a minimum 
amount of disk space, it has been necessary to move over the "minimum"
number of files.  So far,  I can only get xclock to run.  

I get the error message:

073-019  The aixwm command could not query the string width in SetUpWindow.


Any help on what file(s) I might still be missing?

Thanks.

John

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From: dharding@pollux.lssec.bt.co.uk (Derek Harding)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: setting DISPLAY env variable
Date: 21 Dec 92 08:57:29 GMT
Organization: BT D&P London

In article <1go0ivINN93@gap.caltech.edu>, lindheim@hagar.ccsf (Jan Lindheim) writes:
|> In article 1gmgnoINN4bu@sol.deakin.OZ.AU, rns@deakin.OZ.AU (Robert Sturrock) writes:
|> >Hello,
|> >
|> >is there a way to set the DISPLAY variable to be the particular workstation
|> >you are using inside ".bashrc".  That is, I want every new xterm, for
|> >whatever host I happen to be logging into, to have DISPLAY set to my
|> >workstation.  Note that my workstation will vary, so I can't just
|> >hardwire
|> >
|> >	export DISPLAY=workstation:0.0
|> >
|> >inside my .bashrc file.
|> >
|> >Thanks
|> >
|> >
|> >Rob
|> 
|> You can put something like:
|> 
|> if ("`tty`" == "/dev/console") then
|>     echo `hostname`:0 > $HOME/.x11host
|> else
|>     set X11HOST = (`cat $HOME/.x11host`)
|>     setenv DISPLAY $X11HOST
|> endif
|> 
I use the following command in my .twmrc (I use ksh) to run framemaker remotely. This
works from any workstation since it uses the 'hostname' command to workout what machine
I am on.

Menu "Tools"
{
    "Remote Frame (xxx) ..."  ! "rsh xxx \"DISPLAY=`hostname`:0;export DISPLAY;\
                                 /tools/framemaker/bin/imaker\" &"
    .
    .
    .
}

Derek
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From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xlife -- the plot thickens again...
Date: 23 Dec 92 07:03:53 GMT

The good news is, my Xlife (which will be released as Xlife 4.0) now has
multi-state support.  You can run any cellular automaton with up to
8 states and the Von Neumann 4-cell neighborhood, using a transition table
specified by an editable file.  I have reorganized the internals in such
a way that adding code to handle more general case should be easy.

The bad news is, I never did figure out the reason for the XFillRectangles()
screwage in my 2.0bis code --- the problem simply went away when I merged my
changes into 3.0.  Spooky.
-- 
					Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:20494 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:5721
From: ekpc@access.digex.com (East Kentucky Power Cooperative)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.ms,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and X under MS Windows 3.1?
Date: 22 Dec 1992 20:43:55 GMT
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.com


I am using Hummingbird's eXceed/W with Novell's Lan Workplace for DOS.
This works rather well, especially for this site as it is a mixture of
ARCNet and ether.  Except for a for a few cosmetic differences, I have
been rather pleased with the setup.  eXceed/W is up to version 3.2.
(What out for disk 4 in the 3.5" floppy set- all of mine were bad, but 
they were happy to send out a new one)

Fernie

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: luca@dedalo.unipg.it (Luca Priorelli)
Subject: Where is vtwm for R4?
Organization: Universita' di Perugia
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:37:39 GMT

Where can I get vtwm for R4?

Thanks

Luca Priorelli
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: vk@ucs.att.com (Vijay Kothari)
Subject: OLIT Wrapper
Organization: AT&T Universal Card Services, Jacksonville FL
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 13:23:02 GMT


Olit Programmers,


I am looking for wrapper for OLIT, something like
UIT for XView. Is any one knows from where i can get one?


Thanks,


Vijay

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: rps@arbortext.COM
Subject: X11R4 config for Solaris 2.1
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:19:57 GMT

Hi.  I'm looking to build X11R4 for Solaris 2.1.  If you have done so,
and have a config file that you could share with me, I'd appreciate it.
All I really need to build is the libs.

		Thanks, Ralph

From: hstroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Howard Stroyan)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:55:15 GMT
Subject: Re: transparent parts of Pixmaps ??
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In comp.windows.x, jamescr@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (jim crumpler) writes:

> 	Is there any way to have transparent parts of a pixmap/image
> 	so the underlying image is not destroyed by a blank box ???
> 
Look at the Clip_mask component of the GC:

	The clip-mask restricts writes to the destination drawable.  If the
	clip-mask is set to a pixmap, it must have depth one and have the same
	root as the GC, or a BadMatch error results.  If clip-mask is set to
	None, the pixels are always drawn regardless of the clip origin.  The
	clip-mask also can be set by calling the XSetClipRectangles or XSetRegion 
	functions.  Only pixels where the clip-mask has a bit set to 1 are drawn.
	Pixels are not drawn outside the area covered by the clip-mask or where
	the clip-mask has a bit set to 0.  The clip-mask affects all graphics
	requests.  The clip-mask does not clip sources.  The clip-mask origin is
	interpreted relative to the origin of whatever destination drawable is
	specified in a graphics request.

--
Howard Stroyan                                         
Hewlett-Packard                                        hstroyan@fc.hp.com
Systems Technology Division                     
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks)
Subject: Re: Why do people call it X-windowS?
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:45:10 GMT

dansmith@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Smith) writes:
| 	Who came up with the name anyways?  They should be chased around
| in the snow at MIT's Tech Square by angry reindeer :-)

And into Kendall Square, and on to the MIT Coop, the major bookshop
hereabouts, and on into the book section, and up to the entire stack
devoted to books about...according to the label on the stack...

			X WINDOWS
-- 
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Open Software Foundation			uunet!osf.org!dbrooks
Shine out, fair sun, with all your heat!  Black winter freezes to his seat...
The boneless fish close quaking lies...the stars in icicles arise!
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: dror@netcom.com (Oz Dror)
Subject: Re: xconsole client cannot open console..
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 01:47:51 GMT

I have The same problem with Xfree86 1.1 running on ODT 1.1

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Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:20506 comp.windows.x.motif:8186
From: vrowley@testament.bbn.com (Vicky Rowley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Undefined symbol _mblen - WHY?
Date: 23 Dec 92 00:42:12 GMT
Reply-To: vrowley@testament.bbn.com. (Vicky Rowley)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

Hi,

Could anyone out there help me out with a linking error that I'm getting?
I'm using Motif 1.2 on a Sun4 and I get the following:


  cc -c -D_NO_PROTO -g test2.c -I/nfs/jonas/u4/motif1.2/usr/include -o test2.o
  cc -g test2.o -L/nfs/jonas/u4/motif1.2/usr/lib -o test -lXm -lXt -lX11
  ld: Undefined symbol
     _mblen
  *** Error code 2
  make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test2'


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Vicky
vrowley@bbn.com
(617)873-2387
From: peter@fission.gatech.edu (Peter Halvorson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Best WM?
Date: 30 Dec 92 22:01:32 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In article <7357@tivoli.UUCP> taylor@foraker.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Eric Taylor) writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.173001.11601@mail.cornell.edu>, phydeaux@guru.med.cornell.edu (Dave Weingart) writes:
>|> Loathing twm, and before I spend hours ftp'ing and hacking into shape
>|> a better window manager, which should I go for?  Running R4 under
>|> A/UX, if that's significant.
>If you are a sun-phreak you will probably like olwm.
>However, few window managers are free.

Actually mwm is one of the few window managers which isn't free, olwm is
freely available as part of the xview package.  There are dozens of free
window managers ( well more than one dozen anyway).

There are a few variants which support virtual screens, and are otherwise
like their parent program.  I can't offer much advise with regard to the
original question, because I happen to like twm ( I've already spent the
hours hacking it into shape), I just wish it had a better control
language to allow me to have the menu scripts responds to program return
codes, etc ( any hints out there?).



Peter Halvorson  --  Georgia Institute of Technology  --  Nuclear Engineering
                             (404) 894-8710
         peter@fission.gatech.edu   --   ne201ph@prism.gatech.edu


Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: loss@enews.nrl.navy.mil (Brian Loss)
Subject: Scripting Program
Organization: U.S. Naval Research Lab, Washington, D.C.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:39:50 GMT

I am looking for source code for a program that can monitor mouse and key
events and record them in a file for later playback.  Does anyone know of such aprogram for X-based Unix systems?  I know there are commercial packages that
can do this on PC's, Mac's, etc.  Portability does not really matter to me, but
I am using a Silicon Graphics workstation, so I think I am more likely to find
something written in X than something specific for SGI.  I would appreciate any
hints that anyone has.  Thanks.


Brian Loss
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Graeme Gill)
Subject: Re: new FAQ? (programming) masking Pixmaps *efficiently*
Organization: Labtam Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 03:45:12 GMT
Summary: Why arbitrary bit masks aren't supported directly.
Keywords: Pixmap, mask, bitmap, graphic context

In article <1992Dec18.012904.15093@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>, mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
> In article <1992Dec15.152852.2528@miki.pictel.com>, oj@miki.pictel.com (Oliver Jones) writes:
> > In article <1992Dec11.180230.10091@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> sns@bondi.jpl.nasa.gov (Sam Southard) writes:
> 
> >> The server in question is probably doing the common thing and
> >> converting clip-masks to rectangle lists.
> 
> Yes...but the choice of this implementation means that clip-masks that
> don't decompose nicely into rectangles will be expensive to set and
> somewhat expensive to use.
> 
> This implementation of clipping made sense in R3, before SHAPE, when
> most clipping regions were the union of a few rectangles, though even
> then, using it for client-specified GC clip masks (which are reasonably
> likely to be complex) strikes me as at least questionable, requiring
> further examination and thought.

	The reason anything more sophisticated has been put in the "too hard"
basket (I guess) is that you basically would have to go around and duplicate
every piece of rendering code in the X server. You then have to add an
arbitrary bit clipping mask to one half of the duplicated code on top of
everything else you have to do to get pixels on the screen (reading the
destination, doing the logical op, masking with the plane mask, clipping
to the clip rectangle). There is no incentive for anyone to do this while
very few applications make use of an arbitrary bit mask. Application writers
will tend to avoid using arbitrary clipping masks because they know they will
be slow.

	Graeme Gill
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.sysv386
From: saqib@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (saqib.karim)
Subject: How to get X windows on AT&T 6386/25 WGS?
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:40:40 GMT
Followup-To: poster

I did like to get X windows running on my at386 box.  What is the easiest
way to do this?  What is the best version of X for AT&T Unix 3.2.2?  I down 
loaded Thomas Roell's at386 version of X R4 from ftp.uu.net but cannot get 
the server to run.  I could look into compiling the software but the disk 
usage requirement are huge and I am trying to avoid that.  I would like
to hear your experiences.  Is there a FAQ that will help me on this subject.


Please e-mail your replies since I do not read these news groups very
often

Thanks.
Saqib Karim
saqib@cbvox.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: rvt@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Rahul V. Tikekar)
Subject: XView question: Menu Buttons
Keywords: menu buttons, xview
Reply-To: rvt@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Rahul V. Tikekar)
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:21:57 GMT

A question on XView and menu buttons. How do I get the
the triangle on the menu button of a panel to point to
the right? Currently, it points down.

Here is a little of my code (in C++) on a SPARC.

// first create the menu
Menu menu = (Menu)xv_create (NULL, MENU,
	MENU_ACTION_ITEM,	"item1", proc1,
	MENU_ACTION_ITEM,	"item2", proc2,
	NULL);

// create panel button and attach the menu to it
(void)xv_create (panel3, PANEL_BUTTON,
	PANEL_LABEL_STRING,	"Menu...",
	PANEL_ITEM_MENU,	menu,
	NULL);
.
.
.
.
The panel is created with the menu button. However the
triangle on the menu button points down (the menu is displayed
below the button). I want the menu displayed to the right of
the button.

I will appreciate any help.

-- Rahul


Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: CFRAZIER@hdsc.ssc.af.MIL (C | C Code | C Code Run, please!)
Subject: key bindings for Motif
Organization: The Internet
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:18:52 GMT

Does anyone know where I can find a listing of the
keybindings for Motif.  I want to know how to use
Motif without a mouse.  Thank you.

cfrazier@hdsc.ssc.af.mil
From: Judith Moore <judith@mermaid.larc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Help with Colormaps
Date: 21 Dec 1992 20:44:51 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: mollusk.larc.nasa.gov
Keywords: colormaps

I'm new to X-windows and am writing an application for which I
need to use a series of (different) 256-color color tables on 
a single open window -- that is, with the same image displayed, I
want to change the entire colormap an arbitrary number of times.
I'm having a lot of trouble making X understand this. Can anyone
supply a cookbook of the sequence of events and functions to 
thoroughly quash the previous colormap and allow a new one to 
color the picture?

Thanks.
Judith Moore

judith@mermaid.larc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: iscooibc@nuscc.nus.sg (Beng Chin)
Subject: PICASSO screen dump
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 04:53:54 GMT


Hi there,
	I am currently writing my final year report and
need a screen dump(postscript format) of PICASSO and
some of the examples generated.

	Would deeply appreciated any speedy reply.

chooging@iscs.nus.sg

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: mats@netcom.com (Mats Wichmann)
Subject: Re: Left handed users and X-windows
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:03:35 GMT

brenner@ucunix.san.uc.edu (David L. Brenner) writes:

> I am using X11 release 5 on a Sun workstation and have a number of
> users that are left handed.  

> Is there any way to change the configuration of the mouse to allow
> for left-handed people to use the mouse in this fashion?

mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) replies:

>I assume you want to reverse the order of the buttons, so that button 1
>is still under the index finger.

>This is almost an RTFM question, except that it's not a priori obvious
>which TFM to R.  You want xmodmap(1); here's a snippet from our copy:

>EXAMPLES
>     Many pointers are designed such that  the  first  button  is
>     pressed  using  the  index finger of the right hand.  People
>     who are left-handed frequently find that it is more comfort-
>     able  to reverse the button codes that get generated so that
>     the primary button is pressed using the index finger of  the
>     left hand.  This could be done on a 3 button pointer as fol-
>     lows:

>          %  xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"

>Note that there is no simple single command you can give xmodmap that
>will do this regardless of the number of buttons on the pointer, though
>xmodmap -pp and a small awk script could do it easily enough.


I've got to add that I'm left-handed and gave up on using the mouse
on the left because a bunch of stuff has to be done with mouse button
plus something else - and as long as most keyboards have control and
alt only on the left side, well, it becomes an interesting job of
contortion...
-- 
Mats Wichmann
Unisoft Corporation
mats@unisoft.com (or mats@netcom.com)

Silly Disclaimer:  speaking only for myself, except when I'm not.
From: daniel@juliet.osf.org (Daniel Dardailler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: compress_motion widget event filter...
Date: 21 Dec 92 15:29:57 GMT
Organization: Open Software Foundation, Motif Team

|> I have learned that the problem I described in my previous post can be
|> fixed by changing the event filter on my drawing area widget, specifically,
|> changing compress_motion from FALSE to TRUE.  The problem is that I
|> cannot see any legal approved of way of doing this.  What should I do?

Unless I can't read C anymore, compress_motion is already True in 
my version of DrawingA.c (which I think is the right one :-)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
From: jli@udecc.engr.udayton.edu (Jinghong Li)
Subject: Play CD on DEC ?
Organization: Univ. of Dayton, School of Engineering
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 19:48:11 GMT

Can DEC 5000-133 play CD - for music ?  We have the 
stations with the CD ram driver, but don't know how
to play music.  Please help.

What is the command, or where to get the function ?

Thanks a lot.


-- 
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to understand the game but not smart enough to lose interest.
From: ramakris@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (S.Ramakrishnan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Centering button in form ?
Date: 24 Dec 92 03:23:35 GMT
Organization: VPI&SU Computer Science Department, Blacksburg, VA

In article <3952@creatures.cs.vt.edu> ramakris@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (S.Ramakrishnan) writes:
>In article <1992Dec23.142215.9700@osf.org  > daniel@juliet.osf.org (Daniel Dardailler) writes:
  >  
  >  >|>  -------------------------------
  >  >|> |       ----------------        |
  >  >|> |      |                |       |
  >  >|> |       --XmPushButton--        |
  >  >|>  ------------------------XmForm-
  >  
  >  
  >  >In this routine, do something like:
  >  >
  >  >        n = 0;
  >  >	XtSetArg (args[n], XmNwidth, &width);  n++;
  >  >	XtGetValues (push, args, n);
  >  >
  >  >	n = 0;
  >  >	XtSetArg (args[n], XmNleftAttachment, XmATTACH_POSITION);  n++;
  >  >	XtSetArg (args[n], XmNleftPosition, 50);  n++;
  >  >	XtSetArg (args[n], XmNleftOffset, -((int)width)/2);  n++;
  >  >	XtSetValues (push, args, n);
  >
  >This fragment of code is likely to yield funny results. 
  >XmNleftPosition indicates not the x-coordinate but the 50th grid 
  >position where the number of grid elements is set by XmNfractionBase (a
  >form resource).

Before I get flamed...

Looks like the default value of XmNfractionBase is 100. That being the
case,  the leftedge of the button will be at halfway point in the form -
which still does not centre the button.

At any rate, the non-zero value of XmNleftOffset will be completely
ignored.

  (...)

---
S Ramakrishnan, CS Dept, McBryde Hall, VaTech
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
From: besp@ellis.uchicago.edu (anna  besprozannaya)
Subject: Re: Table Widget Woes...
Keywords: Table Widget, core dump
Reply-To: besp@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:07:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.163835.25043@searchtech.com> rob@searchtech.com (Rob Andes) writes:
>
>	I've recently come across some useful Motif widgets, and am
>currently undertaking their compilation for eventual use in an 
>application.  One widget of particular interest is the _Table Widget_ of
>Harrison and Nazgul (sorry to others that contributed but aren't 
>mentioned).
>	
>	The problem (for me) is getting the widget to run, even using
>the example programs.  I compile ok (using the updates for Motif 1.1),
>but both of the examples core dump, with nothing of use in the dbx
>scan.  Seems to crash during the XtOpenDisplay (yeah, I know how early
>that is, *sigh*) call.
>	
You probably grabbed the sources from export.lcs.mit.edu.
The problem is that in both example programs XtOpenDisplay()
is called with one of the parameters illegally set to NULL (sorry,
I don't remember exactly which one, but think it's app_context). 
Read the man page for XtOpenDisplay(), call it correctly, and
you should be ok.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anna Pluzhnikov		besp@ellis.uchicago.edu		312/955-5784

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add,
but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de St. Exupery
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
From: ntran@nosc.mil (Nu Tran)
Subject: Help on compiling Motif programs
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:22:00 GMT



Hi netters,

I tried to compile a Motif application with
links to -lMrm -lXm -lXt -lX11 and got
the following error message:
 
 Undefined
 __XmSnoResize
 __XmSEMPTY_STRING
 __XmSautoUnmanage
 __XmShelpCallback
 __XmSmessageAlignment
 __XmSmessageString
 __XmSdefaultButtonType
 __XmSokCallback
 __XmScancelCallback
 __XmSdialogTitle
 __XmSdialogStyle
 __XmSlabelString
 __XmSitems
 __XmSitemCount
 __XmSselectedItems
 __XmSselectedItemCount
 __XmSlistLabelString


Does anyone know what library I'm missing.
I'm using motif1.1.4, X11R4 and SunOS 4.1.1.
Thanks in advance.

Nu.