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From: gildea@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.announce
Subject: X11R5 public fix #21 available
Date: 18 Dec 92 18:53:45 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

Patches for a variety of problems in R5 are available via anonymous
ftp on export.lcs.mit.edu and via the xstuff mail archive server on
expo.lcs.mit.edu.

Fixes are available via anonymous ftp to export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12),
in the directory /pub/R5/fixes/.  The file for this fix is "fix-21".
Instructions for applying the fix are included in the file.  Fixes usually
propagate to other distribution sites as well, so it may pay to check at a
nearer site first.

For those without ftp access, individual fixes can be obtained by mail by
sending a message to xstuff@expo.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.11).  In the usual
case, the message should have a subject line and no body, or a single-line
body and no subject.  For example, make the line:
	send fixes 21
to get this fix.  To get a summary of fixes, make the line:
	index fixes
If you need help, make the line:
	help
Some mailers produce mail headers that are unusable for extracting return
addresses.  If you use such a mailer, you won't get any response.  If you
happen to know an explicit path, you can include a line like
	path foo%bar.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu
or
	path zot!gzork!me@uunet.uu.net
in the body of your message, and the daemon will use it.

Fix 21 corrects the following problems:

xdm: patch 20 introduced a build problem on AIX 3
Xlib: (Xsi) XCreateFontSet calls free() with NULL
Xlib: (Xsi) wcharint.h should not check the typedef of wchar with WNULL
Xlib: (Xsi) stack allocation problem in multitasking environment
Xlib: (Xsi) bug in definition of XipLocalICRec
Xlib: (Xsi) LocalIM returns only Keysym
Xlib: (Xsi) LoadCodeset() needs to initialize `cds_mb_cur_max'...
From: mppa3@SYMA.SUSSEX.AC.UK (Alan Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.announce
Subject: xvertext available in comp.sources.misc
Date: 15 Dec 92 23:30:00 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: Sterling Software


      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!

---
Alan Richardson,                             * "You don't have to be *
School of Maths & Physical Sciences,         *  old to be wise"      *
Univ. of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, ENGLAND   * ******Judas Priest*****
UK: mppa3@uk.ac.sussex.syma         elsewhere: mppa3@syma.sussex.ac.uk
From: gildea@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.announce
Subject: X11R5 public fix #20 available
Date: 14 Dec 92 17:32:04 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

Patches for a variety of problems in R5 are available via anonymous
ftp on export.lcs.mit.edu and via the xstuff mail archive server on
expo.lcs.mit.edu.

Fixes are available via anonymous ftp to export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12),
in the directory /pub/R5/fixes/.  The file for this fix is "fix-20".
Instructions for applying the fix are included in the file.  Fixes usually
propagate to other distribution sites as well, so it may pay to check at a
nearer site first.

For those without ftp access, individual fixes can be obtained by mail by
sending a message to xstuff@expo.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.11).  In the usual
case, the message should have a subject line and no body, or a single-line
body and no subject.  For example, make the line:
	send fixes 20
to get this fix.  To get a summary of fixes, make the line:
	index fixes
If you need help, make the line:
	help
Some mailers produce mail headers that are unusable for extracting return
addresses.  If you use such a mailer, you won't get any response.  If you
happen to know an explicit path, you can include a line like
	path foo%bar.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu
or
	path zot!gzork!me@uunet.uu.net
in the body of your message, and the daemon will use it.

Fix 20 corrects the following problems:

Xlib: XPolygonRegion can produce non-YXBanded region
Xlib: out of bounds reference in XRegion code
Xt: typo in debug routine _XtConverterCacheStats()
Xt: in resource conversion, dereferenced pointer can be null
Xt: _XtCreate may free args pointer too early
Xt: enter/leave event compression not quite correct
Xt: core dump in Keyboard.c when gadget with focus is destroyed
Xt: unnecessary call to XtUnmapWidget in XtPopdown
Xt: XtPopup prototype declaration requires new-style function definition
Xt: SelectionClear event handler can erroneously clear ownership
Xt: memory leak when two widgets in a client swap selection ownership
Xt: Shell does not correctly update x,y when reparented back to root
Xt: XtSetValues on XtNargv/XtNargc of ApplicationShell is ignored
Xt: per-display keysym info referenced before being set
Xt: alloca decl needs to coexist with possible macro def
Xt: for broken shared libs, don't refer to vendorShell directly
Xmu: xstdcmap on a 24 plane true/direct color dies/hangs
Xaw: missing brackets cause miscalculation of SimpleMenu height
Xaw: query-replace in Text widget broken
Xaw: XawTextReplace should not always enable redisplay
fontlib: X server dies when some clients receive lines > 256 char
fontlib: fs_get_metrics should not do default character substitution
xdm: $HOME not reset if directory nonexistent
xdm: need to set ulimits under AIXV3 when login
PEXlib: Imakefile installs shared library in wrong directory
PEXlib: problems with PEXQueryTextExtents and PEXQueryEncodedTextExtents
From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell~)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R5 make World on SVR4.0 Intel platform. Help!
Date: 19 Dec 1992 22:22:59 GMT
Organization: Intel Corporation
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: thunder.intel.com
Keywords: X11R5 make Worls svr4 intel
Originator: tmcconne@sedona


In article <1992Dec16.223104.28858@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, mjma@cbnewsj.cb.att.com
 (michael.j.matthews) writes:
> 
> Help,
> 
> I am trying to make World X11R5 on a SVR4.0 ATT/NCR Intel machine.
> 
> It doesn't get far before I get this idiotic message:
> 
> make: fatal error: don't know how to make imake.c (bu42).
> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
> 

  I have built X11R5 up to patchlevel 17 on the NCR 3345 and 3350 (Intel 486). I
first built Imake support for the NCR by building a ./mit/config/NCR.cf,
modifying ./mit/config/imakemdep.h, and modifying ./mit/config/Imake.tmpl.

  I initially had some trouble with the MetaWare compiler that comes with the
NCR, so I used gcc (version 2.1 and later). I also had trouble with the make
that comes with the NCR, so I am using gmake version 3.62. I was having problems
with the automounter, but it was later fixed. It would give me incorrect
directories from "pwd".

  If you are interested I can send you the modifications I made.

    Cheers,

    Tom McConnell
-- 
 Tom McConnell          |     Internet: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com
 Intel, Corp. C3-91     |     Phone: (602)-554-8229
 5000 W. Chandler Blvd. | The opinions expressed are my own. No one in 
 Chandler, AZ  85226    | their right mind would claim them.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.apps
From: kerr@ronald-ann.cso.uiuc.edu (Stan Kerr)
Subject: Logitech 3-button mouse with MacX
Reply-To: stankerr@uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:51:52 GMT
Keywords: macx x windows 3-button mouse logitech

(Apologies if this text gets choppy; Newsgrazer on the Next I'm using is not  
too bright about wrapping.)

There are a few 3-button mice on the market that are purported to work with MacX. I just got a Logitech MouseMan and would like to offer my comments and solicit suggestions.

The mouse is a 3-button mouse with a standard ADB plug. The plug has a 'pass through' connection so that other ADB devices, e.g. the old mouse, can be attached to it. In fact, 
 my old mouse is attached through it and still works fine. 

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.apps
From: kerr@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Stan Kerr)
Subject: Re: Logitech 3-button mouse with MacX
Keywords: mouseman 3-button mouse logitech
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:34:25 GMT

billma@utoday.com (Bill Mallon) writes:

>I've been using the Logitech MouseMan with (MouseKey software ) for about a 
>month now, almost exclusively in graphics applications (limited desk space 
>around my RasterOps and IIfx). I particularly enjoy the programmable keys; I'm 
>set up for double-click on the middle key and click-lock on the right. 
>    When others have to use my machine, though, they get crazy trying to relearn 
>mousing and we plug in the old Mac mouse on the pass-through. This invariably 
>kills the MouseKey software, even after reboot, and I have to unplug the Mac 
>mouse to regain my three-fingered functionality..
>(Also: I'm getting used to drawing with my thumb, but it's starting to ache....)

Sounds fishy to me. Maybe your ADB cable is bad. It should pass through
signals from both devices. Did you power down before changing the connection?

-- 

Stan Kerr    
Computing & Communications Services Office, U of Illinois/Urbana
Phone: 217-333-5217  Email: stankerr@uiuc.edu
From: update@egf-bbs.uucp (Update System)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Quick help...
Date: 16 Dec 92 02:48:20 GMT
Organization: EGF, MN Public Access Unix

I recently installed X11R4 on my 2/120.  I've been playing with mwm a little
and I like it, but I've run into a couple problems....

1.  If I invoke X with "startx" as user "update", everything works fine; if
	I try and run it as MY login, it dies.  Do some programs need to be
	run setuid?  Which ones?

2.  Under mwm, if I start a new xterm, some output is sent directly to
	the console (like the PID of the xterm) and it messes up the 
	screen.  What can I do about it?

Thanks,

Mike
-- 
I should really be _doing_ something now...
From: mar@igor.tamri.com (Derrick Mar)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Outlined fonts for X11R4
Date: 12 Dec 92 03:06:57 GMT
Organization: TOSHIBA America MRI, South San Francisco, CA

I am seeking information on where and how to obtain outlined fonts
for X11R4.  By outlined fonts, I mean fonts with shadow all around
(not the scalable outline fonts available in X11R5).
I am emulating it by writing text eight times with a couple pixels 
offset in each direction in black, and then follow by the 9th write
in the center with white.  The performance is kind of slow.

Any information and response via email is greatly appreciated.

Derrick Mar
(415) 875-3427
From: trest@VisiCom.COM (Mike Trest)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X in a Real-Time environment
Date: 16 Dec 92 16:09:25 GMT
Organization: VisiCom Laboratories, Inc., San Diego, California

We have all of X and Motif running with VxWorks for over 2 years now,
a popular Real-Time operating system.  We have other RTOS versions
under development.  Our server works with a several different
vidio boards.  Applications can do all the expected things with
local or remote servers.  Our libraries work with most of the
GUI application/program generators.  The whole thing is fully
re-entrant . . . that means all libraries, servers, and client
applications share only one copy of the code.

We have placed X & (sometimes Motif) inside instruments, gagets, 
and what-nots.  They are all running variations of a RTOS. Some
devices are totally stand-alone, some are net-connected.  All
are very "light weight" interms of limited memory, limited fonts,
careful use of bitmaps.

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.

..mike..

====================================================
Mike Trest                      trest@visicom.com
Senior Engineer                 Voice: 619 457 2111
Technology Group                Fax:   619 457 0888
VisiCom Laboratories            San Diego, CA 
====================================================
====================================================
Mike Trest                      trest@visicom.com
Senior Engineer                 Voice: 619 457 2111
Technology Group                Fax:   619 457 0888
VisiCom Laboratories            San Diego, CA 
====================================================
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: iscooibc@nuscc.nus.sg (Beng Chin)
Subject: XView graphics -> Mac format
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:21:16 GMT

Hi,
	this one probably answered many times.
	How can I convert the picture captured using XView
	and get it up to Mac format.  Particularly,
	I would like to capture the picture into Mac MS Word 4.

	Thanks.

Kia Chek Phua
phuakiac@iscs.nus.sg
National U. of Singapore
From: huub@cwi.nl (Huub Bakker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Help! (de)iconifying a widget tree
Keywords: XtNiconic, XtNinitialState
Date: 15 Dec 92 09:24:09 GMT
Reply-To: Huub.Bakker@cwi.nl
Organization: CWI, Centre for Mathematics & Computer Science

Hello world,

I want to (de)iconify widget trees. The toplevel shells are created by
XtCreatePopupShell. I tried to do this with the setting of the
XtNiconic and XtNinitialState resources. Iconifying works but deiconifying
does not. What is wrong?

Can anybody help me out? Thanks in advance,


Huub.

-- 
CWI, P.O. Box 4079 			Huub Bakker (huub@cwi.nl)
1009 AB Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel. 31 20 5924080
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: heb@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Herbert Bauer)
Subject: looking for a wrapper for passwd
Keywords: passwd X
Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 13:49:25 GMT

Subject says it all:
We would like to change the password in /etc/passwd via the passwd
command from within a X-application.
I'm sure we are not the first one looking for such a beast.
Can anybody point me to a source. If nothing turns up, I'm going
to write one by myself.

Thanks for your help and merry Christmas,

Herbert

--
Herbert Bauer                    Herbert.Bauer@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de
Institute of Electronic Design Automation
Technical University of Munich                         phone: +49 89 55174-350
PO Box 20 24 20, 8000 Munich 2, Germany
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: swispl@solomon.technet.sg (SW International)
Subject: Xos on SVR4
Organization: TECHNET, Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 12:43:28 GMT

Just a small q:

Some programs (like Ghostscript) want -DSVR4 defined on such a
system, but *not* -DSYSV. But on all SVR4's I've seen so far,
Xos.h searches for string.h only when SYSV is defined. And SVR4 has
string, not strings...

Am I missing something?

Mathias

--
SW International Systems Pte Ltd     |  "I've got a plan so cunning 
    14, Science Park Drive           | you could put a tail on it and
    Singapore Science Park           | call it a weasel".. Black Adder
    Singapore 0511                   | 
    Tel: (65) 778-0066               |
    Fax: (65) 777-9401               | swispl@solomon.technet.sg
Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:20390 comp.windows.x.apps:1712
From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: imake,XawClientDepLibs
Date: 18 Dec 1992 13:41:06 -0600
Organization: Cafe Limbo
Distribution: usa
Reply-To: bin@primate.wisc.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: uakari.primate.wisc.edu

From article <BzGwGL.AzC@inews.Intel.COM>, by kmiller@mipos2.intel.com (KELLY MILLER):
> Help! I am trying to make different Xtools and Xapps but I keep getting
> problems when if comes to linking in the libs.
> I get the error:
> make: Fatal error: Don't know how to make target `XawClientDepLibs'
> Which I don't have defined in my imake file.
> The problem is I have no idea what libs these are or what to put here.
> the cc line goes like this:
> cc -o xmailbox xmailbox.o list.o message.o biff.o actions.o DrawingA.o -O  XawClientLibs
> 
> cc: Warning: File with unknown suffix (XawClientLibs) passed to ld
> ld: XawClientLibs: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 4
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `xmailbox'

Sounds like your Makefile wasn't generated properly.  XawClientDepLibs
and XawClientLibs are cpp macros that are shorthand for the Athena Widget
library together with the other X libraries the AW library uses.  They're
defined in Project.tmpl:

#ifndef XawClientDepLibs
#define XawClientDepLibs $(DEPXAWLIB) $(DEPXMULIB) $(DEPXTOOLLIB) $(DEPXLIB)
#endif
#ifndef XawClientLibs
#define XawClientLibs $(XAWLIB) $(XMULIB) $(XTOOLLIB) $(XLIB)
#endif

When you generate your Makefile from your Imakefile, these two symbols
shouldn't even appear; they should be replaced by the lists of libraries
they represent.

How are you creating your Makefile?
-- 
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: baileyc@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Christopher R. Bailey)
Subject: Need stripchart like widgets
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:09:49 GMT


I have a strange widget request.  I would like a widget just like the Athena
stripchart widget, but that automatically updates itself some other way.

This sounds wierd, but here's the deal.  My program doesn't use XtAppMainLoop.
It receives all of it's events using signal I/O (basically my signal handler
is a custom XtAppMainLoop).  It works pretty well, but the stripchart widget
never calls it's getvalue function, so it never updates.  I need some other
way for it to be able to call this function.  I am a beginning Xt programmer,
so I thought I'd look for a solution before attempting to modify the Athena
stripchart widget.  Any suggestions or direction would be helpful.  I cannot
use Motif stuff, I need Athena or otherwise freely distributable widgets.


-- 
Christopher R. Bailey            |Internet: baileyc@dendrite.cs.colorado.edu
University of Colorado at Boulder|CompuServe: 70403,1522
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
Ride Fast, Take Chances!
From: bagwill@swe.ncsl.nist.gov (Bob Bagwill)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X Terminal screen locker
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:05:23 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

NCD provides patched source to xlock with the server software.  But
this version of xlock works with NCDware 2.4:

README:
	This is the latest version of xlock (sccs version 23.21) patchlevel = 2.3


--
Bob Bagwill
bagwill@swe.ncsl.nist.gov
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: u438813@imux120.ncu.edu.tw (Lin Wei-Ting)
Subject: Why the program cannot work?
Reply-To: u438813@imux120.ncu.edu.tw
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:28:49 GMT


/*******************/

void
inverse(item, event)
	Panel_item	item;
	Event		*event;
{
	t_window1_objects	*ip = (t_window1_objects *) xv_get(item, XV_KEY_DATA, INSTANCE);
	unsigned long p1,p2;
	int	y;
	int	lx,rx;
	int	i,j;
	unsigned int k;
	width=xv_get(obj,CANVAS_WIDTH);
	height=xv_get(obj,CANVAS_HEIGHT);
	ximage=XCreateImage(theDisplay,theVisual,theDepth,ZPixmap,
						0,0,width,height,8,0);
	ximage->data=(char *)malloc(sizeof(char)*width*height);
	ximage=XGetImage(theDisplay,xwin,0,0,width,height,AllPlanes,ZPixmap);
	for(i=0;i<height;i++)
		{
		data1=(char *)(ximage->data)+i*width;
		for(j=0;j<width/2;j++)
			{
			k=*(data1+j);
			*(data1+j)=*(data1+width-1-j);
			*(data1+width-1-j)=k;
			}
		}
	XPutImage(theDisplay,xwin,theGC,ximage,0,0,0,0,width,height);
	XFlush(theDisplay);
	free(data);
	XDestroyImage(ximage);
	XFlush(theDisplay);
}

/*******************/

I want to flip an image horizontally.But the program cannot work.Why?
Thanks a lot.
From: esr@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xlife --- the saga continues
Date: 17 Dec 92 11:49:08 GMT
Distribution: world

In <1jm6zb#0fJwbK4lwpNj8ZzxLR1HQvRg=esr@snark.thyrsus.com> I wrote:
>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!

Many thanks to the numerous X hackers who sent responses to this.

Unfortunately, the simple guess --- that I was exceeding the server's request
size --- is wrong.  When these XFillRectangles() calls send requests of the same
size involving only black and white colors, they are processed just fine.  (I
also checked, numerically, that the maximum request size my code generates
is less than the maximum size displayed by xdpyinfo).

All of you who called to tell me about Xlife 3.0:  thanks, I have it now and
am already well into merging in my more recent changes.  Ironically, my name
is featured prominently on that release --- I wrote most of the user-interface
improvements over 2.0, excepting the "load mode" hair.

As before, my major aim is to get Xlife to support automata of more than two
states, with facilities for making interactive exploration of transition
tables easy.  This will happen, but it's not done yet.  The code was all
written in my 2.0 mutant, but integrating it into 3.0 is not proving trivial
and I've still got testing and debugging to do...

However, I've already made some significant improvements to the user interface;
4.0, whether or not it includes working n-state support, should be as big a win
over 3.0 as 3.0 was over 2.0.
-- 
					Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: smw@wikki.b17c.ingr.com (mike wixson)
Subject: afm, pfb TO snf, bdf font converters?
Reply-To: smw@wikki.b17c.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:53:11 GMT

 Hi! I got some new fonts from someone through the net last week, and they
were in afm and pfb formats (at least that is what the extensions were). I
would very much like to convert them to snf or bfd so that I can use them
in X. Does anyone know what kind of fonts these would are and where I can
find a converter?

Thanks-o-plenty!

-- 
	mike wixson		smw@wikki.b17c.ingr.com

  "I gotta admit that I'm a little bit confused.
   Sometimes it seems to me as if I'm just being used.
   Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise.
   If I don't stand my own ground, how can I find my own way out of this maze?"
						- Pink Floyd
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg)
Subject: Re: Why do people call it X-windowS?
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 11:24:09 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.092825.25666@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Stumpf) writes:
|> 
|> 
|> The quote you are looking for is by Jim Fulton, if I remember correctly
|> and it is:
|> 
|> "It is a window system called X, not a system called X Windows"

Where can I find this quote?
I remember seeing it in some X-source or X-manual, but I've forgotten 
where.

-- 
Joergen Haegg				jh@efd.lth.se	postmaster@efd.lth.se
System manager @ efd			Phone: international +46 46 107492
Lund Institute of Technology		Snailmail: DDG, Maildelivery 7, BOX 118
Fax: +46 46 104013			S-221 00 LUND, Sweden
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.sgi