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From: br762@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Tim Werner)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Xt question. Where are the pushbuttons?
Date: 3 Jan 93 16:33:37 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)

Date: 3 Jan 1993 15:18:11 GMT
Message-Id: <1i703jINN525@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


In a previous article, cp78085@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Tan Koan-Sin) says:

>Asente & Swick use their own wigdet set in that book. Not Motif, nor Athena 
>Widgets.

Tan emailed me, asking me to tell him my specific compile errors, and I ended
up hacking around until I got them all to go away. I still don't understand
it, though.

I had to:
  include <X11/ObjectP.h> in GraphDispP.h
  include <X11/CompositeP.h> in BoxP.h
  include <X11/CoreP.h>           "
  include <X11/ObjectP.h>         "
  include <X11/ObjectP.h>    in LabelGadgP.h
  include <X11/RectObjP.h>        "
  include <X11/ObjectP.h>    in MenuP.h
  include <X11/ObjectP.h>    in Confirm1P.h

Why did I have to do all this to make the widgets? Why does it compile out
of the box for everyone else?

Thanks to everyone who wrote.

tim werner
--
The shadow of the bamboo sweeps the steps,
but the dust does not stir.
The moon's disc bores into the lake,
but the water shows no scar.


  
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From: fish@daacdev1.stx.com
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: What is Xremote?
Date: 31 Dec 92 02:40:18 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center

Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:45:18 GMT
Message-Id: <fish.725751918@news.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

koverber@cs.ulowell.edu (Kurt Overberg) writes:

>I saw someone post something about a program called 
>Xremote?  It sounds interesting, what is it?  Could it
>be a way to dial into my machine at work and set my 
>display to my 486 at home?!  Wow! That would be 
>great!  Thanks...  :)

its a product NCD developed i believe - send a note to
info@ncd.com and they'll tell you about it i imagine

		fish
--
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From: converse@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Donna Converse)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: translation complication
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:22:05 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

Message-Id: <9212221900.AA24018@excess>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:00:54 EST


> I include here source for a simple program to experiment with
> translations.  What I want is to be able to distinguish the following
> user actions for the following purposes:
> 
> 	<Btn1Down>		initiate a 'move' operation
> 	<Btn1Down>(2)		initiate a 'resize' operation
> 	<Btn1Motion>		do the operation
> 	Shift<Btn1Motion>	do the operation with constraints
> 	<Btn1Up>		complete the operation

The Xt specification doesn't support a translation table which contains
both double-click translations and pointer motion translations.   This
is mentioned in Appendix B of the specification and is expained in more
detail on pages 353 and 354 of Asente & Swick.


Donna Converse
MIT X Consortium
From: hstroyan@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Howard Stroyan)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: transparent parts of Pixmaps ??
Date: 24 Dec 92 21:28:36 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA

Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:55:15 GMT
Message-Id: <7320058@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
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
From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Postscript in a window
Date: 22 Dec 92 23:16:29 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

Date: 22 Dec 92 18:46:56 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Dec22.184656.18116@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <BzM8ov.BC@ulowell.ulowell.edu>, koverber@cs.ulowell.edu (Kurt Overberg) writes:

> There is a public domain utility called Ghostscript and Ghostview.

Our online GhostScript source has an FSF-style copyright notice all
over it.  Our GhostView source seems to have two sorts of copyright
notices; some files have an FSF-style copyright, while others have a
more X-ish copyright, permitting essentially anything to be done with
the stuff.

Neither one is public domain.  I doubt that any other version of either
is in the public domain, but I suppose there's some chance I'm wrong.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
From: kornai@csli.stanford.edu (Andras Kornai)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Getting the high part of 8-bit ascii
Date: 3 Jan 93 07:33:44 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: CSLI, Stanford University

Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:56:10 GMT
Message-Id: <1993Jan3.055610.22032@Csli.Stanford.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

How do I get emacs under X11R5 to display high ascii chars from a
font?  I got a bunch of mixed cyrillic/latin files that use 8-bit
encoding, and also a variety of fonts that supposedly work with these.
However, when I use M-x x-set-font to set my font to any of these, the
appearance of the characters changes (so the font is clearly being
used) but the things outside the 7-bit ascii range still display as
control chars or as \nnn (octal). Am I doing something wrong? Or do I
have the wrong fonts? I tried with emacs 18.58.3 as well as with the
older 18.54.8, and the newer mule9.5.1 (based on emacs 18.58.5), but
it makes no difference. The fonts I tried were koi8x13 and other
sizes, as well as -etl-fixed-medium-r-normal--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-5
and other sizes. Thanks in advance,

Andras Kornai (kornai@csli.stanford.edu)
From: leisner@wrc.xerox.com ( Marty Leisner)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: playing with window managers
Date: 28 Dec 92 06:35:17 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Xerox

Date: 28 Dec 92 02:59:16 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Dec28.025916.22596@spectrum.xerox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


I normally exec a window manager at the end of my .xinitrc...

But how do I easily select different window managers to try out 
(I'm talking about twm, vtwm, tvtwm, and ctwm?)

Another apporach is to have a xterm window and the end of the .xinitrc, and
exiting this window will kill X -- but this I find kludgy..

Should I just kill the X server on my server and everything will die?



--
marty
leisner.henr801c@xerox.com  leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com
Member of the League for Programming Freedom
From: izeek@techunix.technion.ac.il (Ilan Aisic)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: JAM from JYACC - mouse buttons ?
Date: 24 Dec 92 22:34:02 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 13:09:52 GMT
Message-Id: <izeek.725202592@techunix.technion.ac.il>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.x

I'm posting this on behalf of a friend who is using JAM on top of OpenWindows
on a Sun SPARC to create an application.
My friend complains that she can only program JAM to accept left button (the 
SELECT button) from the mouse.  If she presses the right mouse button (MENU), 
her application displays the default OW menu that she doesn't want.
In fact, she would like to assign the JAM "Help" function to the middle or 
right mouse button instead of a keyboard combination as suggested.
The solution if any, should not alter the OpenWindows behavior (xmodmap).

If there are JAM experts out there, I also have another question:
How do I get from a JAM application some Xlib variables like the
Display pointer, the Window id, etc.  If someone wants to add some
X - extentions to a JAM application how he/she go about it?

Thanks in advance,

    ____
     /  /   __ 
    /  /   /_/ /| /
 __/_ /__ / / / |/   o o o
 
Ilan Aisic
tel:	972-4-344474
fax:	972-4-342492
Email:	izeek@techunix.technion.ac.il
From: black@ll.mit.edu (Jerry Glomph Black)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Rexec or rsh application for Macs?
Date: 25 Dec 92 01:02:46 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 17:59:34 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Dec24.175934.27601@ll.mit.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.x

Hopefully not too much of a FAQ, but does there exist a simple MacTCP client
which is able to do a simple rexec to a unix host, displaying the result
of the request? I'd like to provide a phone dir lookup and finger utility,
and other functions without forcing users to go into telnet or other big program.

Thanks.
(please copy response to black@LL.MIT.EDU)
From: mats@netcom.com (Mats Wichmann)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Left handed users and X-windows
Date: 24 Dec 92 21:56:40 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:03:35 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Dec24.060335.18342@netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

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: nieh@netcom.com (Ko-Haw Nieh)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Xet 1.0 is Now Available (animation)
Date: 30 Dec 92 20:15:47 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:39:10 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Dec30.163910.10833@netcom.com>
Newsgroups: comp.graphics.animation,comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.x

                     Xet 1.0 is Now Available
                     ************************

What is Xet ?
-------------
	
     Xet is an X application program  based  on  X11R5.  Xet  has
     sophisticated  mechanisms  to create and to display animated
     images under X window.  I named the program  Xet,  X  Enter-
     tainment System, is because I intended to make Xet as a tool
     to create animated images for visual pleasure. If  you  find 
     Xet has practical usefulness please let me know.

System Requirements
--------------------

     Xet was developed on Sun/IPC/SunOS-4.1.1 and it hasn't been 
     ported  to other platforms yet.

     The implementation of Xet is divided  into  two  parts.  The
     first part contains Motif based user interface which is com-
     pletely implemented by using WCL-2.3. The  second  part  was
     written in C++. The installation of Xet requires the follow-
     ing: (1)  X11R5,  (2)  Motif-1.1.1,  (3)  WCL-2.3,  and  (4)
     Sun/C++-2.1. In order to operate Xet, it is required to have
     the  following:  (1)  Sun/Sparc  with  color  monitors,  (2)
     installed  pbmplus10dec91  programs,  and  (3)  djpeg  (only
     required for using jpeg/jpg images with Xet).

Highlight Of Xet Capabilities
-----------------------------

     1.  A comprehensive menu/form driven interface to create and
         to display animated images.
     2.  Xet provides 6 basic animation  models,  namely,  locus,
         random,  fly,  glide,  fixed, and blink. Basic animation
         objects can be chained to form movie objects.
     3.  The behavior of animation objects can  be  altered  with
         several key strokes at run time.
     4.  A menu/form interface to drive pbmplus programs.
     5.  Xet provides users with the  capability  to  use  either
         private color map or default color map and it can be
         altered at run time.
     6.  Clips can be overpainted on the drawing area.
     7.  Clips can be made by cutting regions on the drawing area.
     8.  Xet uses shape masks to animate non-rectangular images.
     9.  Xet provides mechanisms to utilize scaleable fonts in 
         X11R5 to create clips for animating text strings.
    10.  Animation sessions can be saved for playback/modification.
    11.  Animation sessions can be set up by  using  Xet  script.
         Xet script is a simple instructive language.
    12.  Plenty of demos came with the Xet distribution.
    
Where is Xet ?
--------------

It is located at contrib/xet-1.0.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ko-Haw Nieh
December, 1992
nieh@netcom.com
-- 
Ko-Haw Nieh
Tele: 415-960-1260  E-mail: nieh@netcom.com
From: drew@vision.co.uk (Andy Walker)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: What is Xremote?
Date: 31 Dec 92 18:03:17 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK

Date: 31 Dec 92 10:01:34 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Dec31.100134.4934@visionware.co.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

koverber@cs.ulowell.edu (Kurt Overberg) writes:
: 
: I saw someone post something about a program called 
: Xremote?  It sounds interesting, what is it?  Could it
: be a way to dial into my machine at work and set my 
: display to my 486 at home?!  Wow! That would be 
: great!  Thanks...  :)

A straight question - a straight answer:

VisionWare produces XVision  the first and still market-leading
Windows-based PC X server. XVision was the first PC X server to support
XRemote - the compressed protocol which allows users to connect to 
remote hosts over an RS232 line and through a modem.
XVision also supports auto dial-up modems.

For more information and pricing details you may care to contact our
US office on 1-800-949-8474 or email nic@visionware.co.uk .

--
Andy Walker
VisionWare Ltd                  EMAIL   : drew@visionware.co.uk
57 Cardigan Lane                PHONE   : +44 (0)532 788858 Ext. 204
Leeds, LS4 2LE, England         FAX     : +44 (0)532 304676
From: rgooch@rp.CSIRO.AU (Richard Gooch)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: xconsole client cannot open console..
Date: 4 Jan 93 01:41:31 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: CSIRO Division of Radiophysics/Australia Telescope National Facility

Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 05:12:52 GMT
Message-Id: <1993Jan1.051252.17301@rp.CSIRO.AU>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <647@ariadna.FibHaifa.com>, ricky@FibHaifa.com (Ricardo <Ricky> Marek) writes:
> 
> 
> Hi Xers:
> 
> We have xconsole client, compiled under X11R5 pl.19
> 
> If a regular user (Nor `root') runs this client, he/she gets
> a message on the xconsole window, and the messages on the
> real console still disrupting the display.
> 
> The message in the X-client is: Couldn't open console
> 
> We run XDM!! 
> 
> I tried also to set uid and gid the binaries of xconsole, but no
> exit..
> 
> Any Hint?!

  The X11r5 version of xterm will check if you own the console device
  (usually /dev/console) before it will open it (cf. X11r4 xterm). This
  prevents people from making mistakes (it was also a security hole, as we
  found out here..). xconsole also does the same check.
  When running xdm, the console device is owned by root, so a user cannot
  capture the console. If you read the man page on xdm, it makes reference
  to a particular resource in the xdm-config file. It specifies a file to run
  when starting up a user session (this runs as root, so one has to be
  careful). My xdm-config file has this entry:

DisplayManager._0.startup:      /usr/local/X11r5/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole

  The GiveConsole file (as supplied in the MIT distribution) contains:

#!/bin/sh
# Assign ownership of the console to the invoking user
#
# By convention, both xconsole and xterm -C check that the
# console is owned by the invoking user and is readable before attaching
# the console output.  This way a random user can invoke xterm -C without
# causing serious grief.
#
chown $USER /dev/console

  We find this works quite nicely. There is another resource to change the
  console ownership back to root (and resets the protections).
  By the way, xconsole does not need to be suid or sgid. Since MIT does not
  suggest that you do this, it's probably a bad idea to do it. They HAVE
  suggested that xterm run suid root, hence they would have put some effort
  into making xterm somewhat safe against security attacks.

				Regards,

					Richard Gooch....
From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: NeXT programs
Date: 22 Dec 92 23:35:42 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

Date: 22 Dec 92 19:09:13 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Dec22.190913.19357@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.windows.x

In article <1992Dec18.180846.27819@gossip.urich.edu>, 2ec0@aurora.urich (Cheese) writes:

> I am wondering if there is a program that allows a NeXT computer to
> pop-up and run x-window programs.  If so where can I find this
> program.

This does not belong on c.w.x.i386unix, since a NeXT has nothing
whatever to do with i386s (and less than one might wish to do with
UNIX).  So I'm crossposting to comp.windows.x and setting followups
there.

Yes, X servers for the NeXT exist.  I know of three.  In chronological
order:

- An R3 port, that presents a 1-bit StaticGray visual to clients (a
  traditional "monochrome" display).  The X root appears in a NextStep
  window.  It is available free, but binary-only because, I am told, it
  uses a proprietary library of some sort.  From what little I know of
  it, it should run on any NeXT display of any sort.  I don't know
  where to get it, except that I think it's from MIT somewhere.

- An R4 port, done by yours truly.  It takes over the screen, the way X
  servers for most other machines do.  It also tells clients the truth,
  in that it presents a 2-bit StaticGray visual.  It has some problems,
  but is perhaps not unusable.  (Someday I'll get around to porting a
  more recent release....)  It is available free; the smaller pieces of
  it (like patches to Xlib and Xt) are public domain, while the most
  involved work - the NeXT-specific stuff, in particular - has a
  copyright like the one used by the MIT distribution.  This runs on
  the 2-bit MegaPixel display and nothing else.  (I have heard of
  people working on ports to color machines, but haven't seen anything
  concrete.)  It can be obtained by anonymous ftp from
  larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (132.206.1.1) in /X/XNeXT.

- A company called PenCom (Pencom? PenComm?) sells a commercial server.
  I know little about it, but I believe it does everything inside
  NextStep windows.  I'm sure the company would be pleased to answer
  any queries you may have about it.  I don't know whether they have a
  mail alias like info@pencom.com or help@pencom.com or some such;
  their whois information is:

	Pencom Systems, Inc. (PENCOM-DOM)
	   9050 Capital of Texas Highway N
	   Suite 300
	   Austin, TX 79759
	
	   Domain Name: PENCOM.COM
	
	   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
	      Bryant, David  (DB63)  dbryant@pencom.com
	      (512) 343-1111
	
	   Record last updated on 02-Oct-91.
  [rest deleted as irrelevant here]

There may well be other companies selling X servers for the NeXT, but I
know of none.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
From: arora@arora.mentorg.com (Arora Amitabh @ PCB x3080)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Problem installing aXe.
Date: 31 Dec 92 06:13:41 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Mentor Graphics Inc.

Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:55:05 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Dec30.225505.2319@news.mentorg.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I was able to get the aXe code from the recomended FTP site, but
I am getting this error when I try to execute:



$ make install
        /usr/bin/X11/bsdinst -c   axe /user/arora/pub/axe/3.1/bin
Make: Cannot load /usr/bin/X11/bsdinst.  Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.



Where can I find this utility on the Apollo/HP700/Sun machines ?  And
what does this utility do anyway ?

Thanks,

-Amitabh Arora
From: peter@fission.gatech.edu (Peter Halvorson)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Best WM?
Date: 31 Dec 92 05:06:05 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Date: 30 Dec 92 22:01:32 GMT
Message-Id: <78902@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

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