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From: kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Subject: Re: When Can I Change the Defaults of X?
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:13:19 GMT

In article gt0449a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Coleman) writes:
>>When I'm running X windows, can I basically change things in the file
>>.Xdefaults or change the defaults directly (font etc.) and have these 
>>changes applied to the current session without exiting X and re-entering 
>>it?
>
>Any changes that you make in the .Xdefaults file won't take effect until
>you a) restart X or b) type "xrdb .Xdefaults" to effectively read in the
>new defaults.  I believe that you can do xrdb from any xterm session and
>it will take effect.

Restarting X is pretty drastic, and certainly not necessary.  Simply
reloading the server resident resource database, i.e. 'xrdb .Xdefaults' 
won't do the trick either, because just doing that won't trigger the
application to reread the resources from the server.

All that's generally necessary is to terminate and restart the application
who's resources you've changed.

What nobody has mentioned so far is editres, which will allow you to set
resources in the running client application dynamically.  editres is a
featured addition to R5.  Motif and OpenLook based applications can easily
be editres aware, and someone even posted an announcement for an R4 port 
of editres recently.

-- 

Kaleb Keithley                               kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: eddy@is.morgan.com (Edward Eldridge)
Subject: X11R5 and Motif 1.2 for Solaris 2.1 
Organization: Morgan Stanley - IS
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:32:11 GMT

Has anyone built a server for 2.1, If so I would appreciate some pointers.

cheers
eddy
From: asholz@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Andreas Holz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Porting X11R5 to SCO-ODT
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:35:28 GMT
Organization: Student Pool, CSD, University of Erlangen, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui00m.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Summary: Porting X11R5 to SCO-ODT
Keywords: X, SCO-ODT

Is there someone, who ist experienced in porting X11R5 to SCO-ODT 3.2.0?

There are some functions missing in SCO, so setitimer() and writev()!

Is there a patch available?


Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: nlc@trellis.cs.nott.ac.uk (Neil L Cook)
Subject: 24 bit Colour in X.
Organization: Communications Research Group
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 09:28:42 GMT

I am looking for advice and or examples of code in how to program
24-bit colour in Xlib. I have a GS card for the SPARC10 which is
capable of theoretically displaying all 16.7 million at once. I have
read the O'Reilly Xlib Programmers guide, but it is extremely sketchy
about using all the colours at once, going on about using a colourmap
for each primary. The Xlib manual talks about plane masks which u
apply to the index into the colourmap.

Specifically, I am looking for the arguments to XAllocColourPlanes,
which seems to die if I give it 256 colours and 8 bit rgb planes.
(Only accepts 1 colour and 8 bit rgb).

Also, once I have got XAllocColourPlanes to work, what do I do with
these plane masks I get back? An example using e.g XPutPixel would be
nice.

Neil.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: tore@bibsyst.no (Tore Morkemo)
Subject: Select failed from xdm.
Organization: Bibliotek-Systemer A/S
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:35:26 GMT


Hi !

We are running X11R5 under SCO 3.2.4.

xdm sometimes start writing an error message into
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-errors or one of the users xsession-errors files.
xdm does this until the disk is full.

The message is

   Warning: Select failed; error code 22

This happens maybe 1 or 2 times per month.

Does anyone know what's wrong ?

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: turkstra@smaug.cs.hope.edu (Screwtape)
Subject: X and SCO anyone?
Organization: Hope College Dept of CS
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:03:16 GMT

Hello,  I'm looking to set up unix on my 386 and have tried
linux, found that it was still too unstable for it to be usable
on my machine.  I've got a 10"x10" SCO unix sysV/386 r3.2 box on
my desk, and was thinging about trying it out.  I read the X faq 
about Xfree not being tested with SCO, but to go ahead and try, 
if I'd like.  So my the thousand dollar Q is - has anyone gotten
X up under this os?  If so, what version (no ODT please) and
where can I get it.  I have binaries for xview 3.3 (I think) but 
don't want to go through the hassle of installing unix and not being
able to use X.
	I may have some definitions and terms mixed up in here, 
so please anyone who wished to correct me, do!

	Also, I noticed a sticker on the SCO box (how observant)
that says "x/open" and "base XPG3".  Can anyone explain what this
means?  Thanks in advance!!

-- 

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: devuns@alsys.fr (Olivier Devuns)
Subject: Modality, Motif & the Intrinsics
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 12:59:21 GMT

Hi xperts,

Thanks to jcb@hal.com (Joe Beall) who answered my previous modality
question. I think I finally found the answer in the Intrinsics. The
problem was to allow access to a permanent help in its own topLevelShell
while the rest of the application is blocked on a modal dialog, such as
a MOTIF MessageDialog instance.

The solution I found is to add the help window to the modal cascade
by just calling :
   XtAddGrab (HelpWidget, False, False);
in the modal dialog's help callback; this allows input to be sent to
the help window and to the modal dialog as well.

When the modal is dismissed, don't forget to remove the grab if it
has been added :
   if (grab_added)
      XtRemoveGrab (HelpWidget);

and you'll want to do that usually in the modal dialog's unmap callback.

Maybe that solution was known-to-everybody-for-years, but since nobody
but Joe answered, I guess broadcasting it again can be useful to others...

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From: paulj@gdwest.gd.com (Paul D Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Anyone know about HyperCard-type (HyperText) system for X/Motif?
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:28:39 GMT
Organization: General Dynamics Corp.


   Has anyone heard of (or does anyone use) a Mac-like HyperCard system 
for X/Motif applications?  Does HyperText have anything to do with HyperCard
and are they similar?  Please respond via email: paulj@gdwest.gd.com.

			-ThanX,
			 Paul D. Johnston

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: libert@citi.umich.EDU (Tom Libert)
Subject: Hourglass cursor?
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:44:40 GMT

I'd like to change the cursor to an hourglass when the display is
unavailable.  However, there is no hourglass icon in the standard X
cursor font.  Does anyone know where I can get a public-domain bitmap
in the shape of an hourglass?
From: censjg@caledonias3.caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Simon Greaves)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11R5 with gcc-2.3.3 for Sun3 ?
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:35:57 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland

Hi,

I intend compiling X11R5 patchlevel 21 this weekend on a Sun 3/60. I have 
gcc-2.3.3, I noticed that usually if I set HasGCC in site.def, then 
the libraries and some other stuff are still built with cc. Gcc is used
for the server code.

Why is this? Can I use this (later) version of gcc?

Also, if I need to interrupt the compile, do I have to do a make World
again (& redo lots of stuff) or is a make everything ok?

Any comments appreciated, (Email to .sig addresses preferred) 

Simon
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From: chris@visionware.co.uk (Chris Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Contact information for Visionware XVision
Date: 27 Jan 93 13:20:51 GMT
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Ellen Yu (eyu@hamlet.umd.edu) wrote:
: I noticed one name that I did not
: recognize which was Visionware XVision.  Does anyone have an address
: and phone number I can call to get more info on this product?  

Our US office phone number is 415 325-2113, fax is 415 325-8710.  For
non-US enquiries call (+44) 532 788858 or fax (+44) 532 304676.

In either case, email to info@visionware.co.uk will reach someone who
will be able to help you, too.

Chris
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: awills@wam.umd.edu (Andrew F. Wills)
Subject: Re: MacIntosh X Emulators
Keywords: Mac, X
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:40:45 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.144556.24716@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> begley@l14h13.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
>   Can anyone offer a quanitative comparison of the speed at which the
>two MacIntosh X window emulators, MacX and Exodus, draw graphics?  Or
>point to a magazine that may have made such a comparison?
>   We have a workstation running MATRIXx on an Ethernet and have 2 workstations
>and about 10 Macs which will connect to it.  Having only tried Exodus,
>we only get satisfactory drawing speeds from our Mac IIfx.  Our IIci's and 
>Mac II's are rather pokey.  Obviously a $2000 CPU upgrade will solve the
>problem, but a $200 switch to MacX would be a cheaper alternative.


Don't use MacX if you want speed.  You might try giving EXodus more memory
in it's File->Get Info listing.

Andy Wills
awills@wam.umd.edu
From: olsenc@stein2.u.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: comp.sys.sun.admin
Date: 28 Jan 93 01:08:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1k7bllINNo28
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: stein2.u.washington.edu

(Please email responses unless you feel that others will benefit)

I need a lesson on how shared object libraries work.  After upgrading
to SunOS 4.1.3, I cannot run X because I get the following error:

ld.so: libXmu.so.4 not found.

The only thing that bothers me is that libXmu.so.4.0 exists in
/usr/local/X11/lib, and I thought that it would use it as long as
that major revision number is the same.  HELP!  I've tried fooling
it with links from /usr/lib to the X11 lib directory but no dice.  I read
in the manpage that it records the library revision numbers and is
real picky about whether or not it will run.

Thanks.

-Clint
From: amit@point.cs.uwm.edu (Amit Srivastava)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: example needed of XgrabKey? w/ XsetInputFocus
Date: 27 Jan 1993 19:07:36 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.2.5

Hi,
I am trying to use XGrabKey() and understand its full ramification,
does anyone have a good example of it?
				-amit
From: payam@landau.Berkeley.EDU (Payam Mirrashidi)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How to make X11R5 build with gcc libraries
Date: 27 Jan 1993 00:24:13 GMT
Organization: The Plasma Theory and Simulation Group, UC Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: landau.berkeley.edu

I am currently trying to rebuild X11R5 using gcc. After I uncomment
the HasGcc line in the site.def file, how do I tell the imake,etc...
where the actually gcc libraries and include file are? My problem
lies in the fact that I am getting them off NFS and thus they are not
in the standard places.

Or is this something I don't have to worry about.

-- 
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"I've seen this happen in other people's lives,
	now its happening in mine" - The Smiths
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: rvy1@Ra.MsState.EDU (Rao V Yelamarti)
Subject: Please Unsubscribe me .....
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:09:45 GMT


Please unsubscribe me,	rvy1@Ra.MsState.Edu
			-----------------------------

Thanks,

Rao Hanu Yelmarti
From: root@atinc.uucp (Operator)
Subject: test
Organization: atinc.com
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:24:37 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xpaint 2.0 compile error
From: koblas@netcom.com (David Koblas)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:46:12 GMT
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)

In article 7556, Roland Besserer writes:
>Just downloaded and tried to compile xpaint 2.0 (have had xpaint 1.0
>for a while) and I get:
>
>Operation.c: In function `okLineCallback':
>Operation.c:90: `XtNleftBitmap' undeclared (first use this function)
>Operation.c:90: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>Operation.c:90: for each function it appears in.)

This is a bug with the original relese of XPaint, I would strongly reccomend
anyone who is still experiancing this problem pick up the current version,
which is xpaint2pl2.tar.Z.  And use it, since it fixes numerious nuisances
and bugs.

It is available for FTP from:
        netcom.com              as pub/koblas/xpaint2pl2.tar.Z
        export.lcs.mit.edu      as contrib/xpaint2pl2.tar.Z

Enjoy,

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: robert@triton.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Angelino)
Subject: Has anyone ported the X input extension in X11R5??
Reply-To: robert@triton.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
Organization: JPL
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:18:35 GMT

A couple of days ago I posted to this group about a compile problem.
Further investigation has finally led me to realize that although
this extension comes with the distribution, it has to be ported
to the platform you are working on.  Those undefined symbol errors
are the functions that I have to write in addition to other neat
modifications to files in server/ddx/sun .  It would make life much
easier for me if I had an example to go by regardless of the platform
involved.  If anyone out there in networld has done such a thing,
I would appreciate a response.

thanks

-robert
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jch+@cs.cmu.edu (Jonathan Hardwick)
Subject: xvt : has anyone hacked it to understand the Alt key?
Summary: or am I just being dense?
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 01:11:47 GMT

Following the advice in the "faster X" FAQ, I took a look at xvt, the
xterm workalike written by J.D.Bovey.  The gain in swap space is
great, *but* I also wanted the -C console switch and use of my Alt key
(emacs just isn't the same having to hit Esc every time...).  The
author kindly pointed me in the direction of Ronan Melennec's version
(ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr:xvt-stna-1.0beta.tar) which has -C but still
doesn't like my Alt key.  

So, does anyone have either:
 (a) a version of xvt that has -C and understands the Alt key
     sufficiently to work with eg emacs, or
 (b) some words of advice on how to get Ronan Melennec's version to
     understand the Alt key (under X11R4, SunOS4.1.1 on a Sun3/50 ...
     now do you understand why I want that swap space back?  :->).

If so, please e-mail me : I'll summarize any positive responses.

Jonathan H., jch@cs.cmu.edu
Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:21567 comp.windows.x.intrinsics:795 comp.windows.x.apps:1880
From: kdh@lindon.ira.uka.de (Klaus Hartenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.intrinsics,comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Athena Widget problem....
Date: 26 Jan 93 09:54:46
Organization: Universitaet Karlsruhe
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: i31s5.ira.uka.de
In-reply-to: pramodmm@stein.u.washington.edu's message of 26 Jan 1993 00:04:02 GMT


Just try this:

  +-------------------------------------------
  |
  |  viewportWidget(with scrollbar)
  |  
  |   +-----------------------------------
  |   |
  |   |  formWidget(to set width and height)
  |   |
  |   |   +--------------------------
  |   |   |
  |   |   |  labelWidget(with empty labelString as drawing area)
  |   |   | 
  |   |   +---------------------  



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From: mark@alsvid.une.edu.au (Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R6 - Efficient Image Data Transfer Protocol ???
Date: 21 Jan 93 09:25:07 GMT
Organization: University of New England - Northern Rivers (Lismore)

From article <9176@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com>, by hwrvo@kato.lahabra.chevron.com (W.R. Volz):
> In article <BADGER.93Jan18202526@jurassic.midnight.com>, badger@jurassic.midnight.com (John Reardon) writes:
> Interesting comment above about DEC. I asked some Dec guru about when
> X11R5 would be available and was told in the summer of 93. I asked
> in the summer of 92. Is there something I don't know or is Dec just
> putting one on me? It seems much too long to wait for a release of
> X. It appears that X11R6 will be out before we get X11R5. Anyone
> at Dec who would like to comment and set me straight on when X11R5 
> will be out to customers?

	I would expect nothing else of a vendor than to wait for for the next
public version since that means that the old one is publicly stable, and 
hopefully has a lot less bugs. 

	I believe that the X11 with OSF/1 Alpha is R5. Check with you Dec guru.

	
	Cheers
		Mark :)
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From: ware@oboe.cis.ohio-state.edu (Peter Ware)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Defeating the resource file search path.
Date: 22 Jan 1993 08:51:52 -0500
Organization: Ohio State Computer Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: oboe.cis.ohio-state.edu
In-reply-to: avinash@felix.contex.com's message of 21 Jan 93 16:16:40 GMT

You could, conceivably, use some idiosyncratic method for loading
the resources and just replace the resource database.  Look at the
Xrm*() functions in Xlib.  But don't do it.

I'll concede that where an Xt program finds resource files does seem
to come from an incredible variety of places.  They are (from highest
priority to lowest priority):

	1. Args passed at creation time.
	2. Command line arguments.
	3. User's per host defaults file
	4. User's defaults file.
	5. User's per application default file.
	6. System wide per application default file.

Of course, it is complicated by the fact that several of these can be
loaded from different places.  Look at the Xt FAQ, Question 20, for
full details about where resources are found.

--pete
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: wilde@bernina.ethz.ch (Erik Wilde)
Subject: Re: URGENT: Need help in using xhost
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:31:31 GMT

Use "xhost +" on the machine running the X server and any client
is allowed to connect to that server. If not, the problem does
not stem from the xhost program. Hope this helps,

Erik. (wilde@tik.ethz.ch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: sautins@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (SAUTINS)
Subject: Rotated Text
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:20:11 GMT


	Is there a Simple way to draw text at a 90 degree angle?
I have been looking at XDrawString, but I don't see anyway to
draw it ad a different angle.

	-drew

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: rgooch@rp.CSIRO.AU (Richard Gooch)
Subject: Re: Motif numbers per Open Systems Today & X Business Group
Organization: CSIRO Division of Radiophysics/Australia Telescope National Facility
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:09:26 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.125019.2975@lsl.co.uk>, snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
> In article <1jku7kINNn4k@shelley.u.washington.edu>, sinan@carson.u.washington.edu (Sinan Karasu) writes:
> > So if there are 7000 sites with 142 machines per site
> > then 1% uniform Motif distribution results in 
> > approximately " 78% of all sites has Motif running
> > on at least on one machine".
> > 
> >  Interesting Statistics? I thought so.Credible? You judge.
> 
> So what? That means these people have gone to the effort of getting something
> that is better than what they got lumbered with buying from Sun.
> 
  Really? Or perhaps they bought some software which requires the Motif library.
  Saying "what they got lumbered with buying from Sun" is yet another biased
  statement. We have bought Decs and rs6000s and have been lumbered with Motif..
  So much so that we take the trouble to compile OpenLook (from the FREE
  sources). Even for Suns (you can like OpenLook but dislike OpenWindows).

> Find any other vendors shipping OpenLook with their kit?
> Funny, they all supply Motif based interfaces. I wonder why?

  Well, not that I am going to listen to the propaganda of the U.I. camp or the
  OSF camp, but I remember one guy from Sun saying that O.S.F. stands for
  Oppose Sun Forever...
  Whether or not you believe this, it is clear that the design and (HEAVY)
  push for Motif is politically based.

> 
> Oh yes, every Sun we VAR, gets Motif on it for our customers. No complaints,
> I wonder why?

  We run OpenLook where possible. No complaints here. I wonder why?
  Perhaps it is because most users don't really care? Certainly not enough to
  complain.
  There are three issues here:
  1)  Which GUI the users chooses, which is a matter of personal tastes
  2)  Which GUI the organisation chooses, which is too often politically based
  3)  Which GUI/ toolkit the programmer chooses

  Fortunately for people here, there is no push from on high to adopt one
  "standard", so individual users and programmers make their own choices.
  I take a pragmatic approach: my first choice is whatever is FREE, available in
  source code and is simple to programme.

				Regards,

					Richard Gooch....
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