HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: ucosmo@mcl.ucsb.edu (Boris Burtin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problems with switching CapsLock/Control
Keywords: xmodmap
Date: 6 Oct 92 22:06:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: mcl.ucosmo.718409196

I am trying to switch Caps Lock and Control on my Sun4 keyboard with this
.xmodmaprc:

	remove lock = Caps_Lock
	remove control = Control_L
	add lock = Control_L
	add control = Caps_Lock

After executing this script, the Caps Lock works fine as the Control key.  When
I hit control, though, a weird thing happens.  The Caps Lock light comes on,
but the characters I type are in lower case!  Can anyone help me with this?


--
     - Boris
(cosmo@cs.ucsb.edu)
From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xwd-> bitmap converstion : how to do it?
Date: 30 Sep 1992 16:22:43 GMT
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: tommy

In article <1992Sep29.193347.13406@evb.com>, mahesh@evb.com (B.G. Mahesh)
writes:
|> Is there a way to convert a xwd file to bitmap?

If you mean an "X11 bitmap" file by "bitmap" and you have PBMPLUS do the
following:

	xwdtopnm image_file.xwd | ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm >image_file.xbm

If your original data is grayscale only you may leave out the ppmtopgm
step, if it is monochrome originally you may also leave out pgmtopbm. And
if you don't have installed PBMPLUS yet, you should do so immediately!

-- 
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  Univ. Dortmund, IRB
  Postfach 500500         |)|/    Tel.: +49 231 755-4663
D-W4600 Dortmund 50       |\|\    Fax : +49 231 755-2386
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps,comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.x.motif
From: parlier@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Randy Parlier)
Subject: X-GUI Builder Evaluations *********
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:52:53 GMT




	We are planning an evaluation on several GUI-Builders (XFacemaker,
	UIM/X, BuilderXcessory, etc.) and would like to hear from anyone
	out there that has recently done the same.  What products you
	evaluated, what was your criteria, which "Builder" did you decide to
	go with, and why, etc.

	We would appreciate hearing from you.

	Randy Parlier
	parlier@puente.jpl.nasa.gov

	Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. 91109
	(818) 354-1454

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: oj@miki.pictel.com (Oliver Jones)
Subject: Re: Can an app record the X protocol requests it makes?
Organization: PictureTel Corporation
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:59:27 GMT

In article <ghawkins.717348354@unix1.tcd.ie> ghawkins@unix1.tcd.ie (George C. Hawkins) writes:
>
>Hi there,
>
>I want an application I am writing to record all the X protocol
>requests it makes while running. Is it possible to do this without
>major changes to the program, 

You could do this without making *any* changes to the program
by using xmon or xscope.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell~)
Subject: X11R5 server problems on ultrix 3.1
Originator: tmcconne@sedona
Keywords: X11R5 server ultrix
Organization: Intel Corporation
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 20:43:42 GMT


  System: VAXstation 3100
  OS    : ultrix 3.1
  X     : X11R5pl17

  I have finally had a chance to run the X11R5 server on a VAXstation 3100
(that's VAXstation, not DECstation) running ultrix 3.1. Everything works fine,
(which is vast improvement over the ultrix 3.1 X server) except:

  Depending on the user that starts the server (using the default X11R5 startx),
the cursor does not appear inside of application windows. The cursor (X logo,
left_ptr, etc.) shows up fine on the root, but not in an xterm window, for
instance. The cursor does shows up in the scrollbar for the xterm. This makes it
extremely difficult to use applications based on pushbuttons, for instance.

  I have not tested window manager dependancies extensively, but the problem
seems to be there using twm, mwm, or tvtwm.

  The weird thing is that another user logs in, using the same setup, and the
cursor works fine. I have seen the cursor go reverse video with the user that
works, but the cursor is still there.

  So, anyone have any ideas?

    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.
Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:17508 comp.unix.sysv386:15279
From: jdp@polstra.UUCP (John Polstra)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: X11R5 on ISC -- no nore shared libs :-(
Date: 6 Oct 92 16:20:41 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.x
Distribution: usa
Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA

In article <1992Oct6.032641.573@shawn.uucp> root@shawn.uucp (Mark Jeghers -- UNIX/X/Motif Contractor) writes:
> The stock version of X11R5 for Intel-based SVGA systems lacks an important
> feature that was readlily available in X11R4 (even though not from MIT):
> shared libraries.

Get XFree86.  I picked up the binaries over the weekend, and all of the
important libraries (X11, Xaw, Xext, Xi, Xmu, Xt, and oldX, to be precise)
came in shared versions.
-- 
   John Polstra                              polstra!jdp@uunet.uu.net
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                  ...!uunet!polstra!jdp
   Seattle, Washington USA   Phone (206) 932-6482, FAX (206) 935-1262
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: tonyf@peacock.ims.com (Antonio Freixas)
Subject: Re: Paned widget resources - xrn config
Keywords: xrn, paned widget
Reply-To: tonyf@ims.com
Organization: Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc.
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:11:11 GMT

In article <2566@devnull.mpd.tandem.com>, duanev@devnull.mpd.tandem.com (Duane Voth) writes:
|> Can someone show me how to arbitrarily position the children of a paned
|> widget using Xresources?  Specifically, I would like xrn to place the
|> article view window to the RIGHT of the article index window instead of
|> below, so I can get 50+ lines of each at once.  (xrn code change suggestions
|> are also welcome)

Wow! What a great idea!  I had once requested that xrn be modified to
have these panes in separate windows, but your idea would add what I
want with less work.

Anyway, there is XtOrientation resource for Paned widgets that can be
set to XtOrientVertical or XtOrientHorizontal.  I'm going to research
this myself.

From Mike Yang:
|> Sorry, you can't do this.  Xrn uses the Motif vertical paned widget.
|> There is no (official) Motif horizontal paned widget.

This would only applies to the Motif version of xrn.

					         -- tonyf@ims.com
					       (503) 626-7117 x1349
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: converse@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Donna Converse)
Subject: Re: Per Display Information
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:09:11 GMT


> Error: couldn't find per display information

Look in the Xt library, in the source for Display.c.

> I don't have sources here, otherwise
> I'd try to have a look myself :-).

Sigh.  They're publically available, on export.lcs.mit.edu.  But if you
are running an R4-based vendor's Xt library, the source is not as easily
available.  I'm not free to do the detective work for you, apologies.
Somehow the per-display data structure within Xt has gotten mucked up.
Things simply won't work without this data structure.  You could try
setting a breakpoint, if you can, at XtErrorMsg, and work backward from
there.

> It only happens on SPARC 2 executables that have been purified.

So can you unpurify them?  How about writing to support people at Purify?


Donna Converse
MIT X Consortium
From: henrich@crs.cl.msu.edu (Chuck Henrich)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Programming in X
Date: 27 Sep 92 20:15:51 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Michigan State University

I am about to begin a project that requires heavy usage of Xwindows, and I
currently know nothing of how to program in it.  I have the Xlib progrmming 
manual, but would like something that covers the Xt toolkit as well.  Any 
suggestions?  I need a book that will cover all aspects of X from simplistic
stuff, to the most complex..  All help is appreciated.

-Crh
--
                          
Charles Henrich      Michigan State University      henrich@crs.cl.msu.edu
     
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.protocols.kerberos
From: tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson)
Subject: Re: X and Kerberos
Organization: Wayne State Univ.
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 00:08:11 GMT

bobb@agora.rain.com (Bob Beauchemin) writes:

>  I'd like to hear from anyone that's using Kerberos as an authentication
>method for your X server. Are you using Vivek Khera's (of Duke University)
>implementation, an in-house implementation, or are there other public
>implementations?

>  Please respond by mail to bobb@agora.rain.com. Thanks.

>Bob Beauchemin
>bobb@agora.rain.com

I would also be very interested in this information. Please either
respond to this group, or e-mail to tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu. Thanks!
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: ken@bristol.com (Ken Blackwell)
Subject: Re: HPGL for X-Windows
Reply-To: ken@bristol.com
Organization: Bristol Technology Inc.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 00:18:46 GMT

|> 	I am trying to find an HPGL library for X. i.e. is their any way
|> 	to convert X graphics/text to HPGL or does such a converter exsist,
|> 	either commercial or otherwise. 

We are about to ship Xprinter Release 2.0 in a couple of weeks.  This 
product is a PostScript and PCL5/HPGL library for X-Windows applications.
Sounds like it is pretty much what you want.

Try info@bristol.com for more information.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: pkarrer@bernina.ethz.ch (Peter Karrer)
Subject: X and UDP?
Keywords: X,UDP
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 20:37:43 GMT

I'm trying to run a demo version of Xtreme's X Appeal X server for DOS.
No success so far, both over SLIP on my home system (silly, I know) and
over a token ring network at work (packet drivers ETHERSL and IBMTOKEN).

TRACE shows that the X server is sending UDP packets to port 177 (hex B1)
and is getting "port unreachable" ICMP messages back.

Now, I heard that X is using TCP, ports n00* (n=8?). So what's that UDP
stuff?

Thanks for info,
-- 
Peter Karrer                                   pkarrer@bernina.ethz.ch
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: rgasch@nl.oracle.com (Robert Gasch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Simple X demo wanted
Date: 2 Oct 92 11:33:34 GMT
Organization: Oracle Europe

I am an absolute novice to the X environment and have no real 
notion of how things are done under X. I am therefore looking
for a simple demo application which opens a window, maybe draws
some points or text and simulates a button which can be clicked
on. 

I'd appreciate it if someone could point to a piece of code which
can serve as a gentle introduction into the world of X and has 
some of the above mentioned characteristics. FTP is fine.

Thanks a lot
---> Rob
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Date: Thu,  1 Oct 1992 00:12:17 -0400 
From: Robert Andrew Ryan <rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Color string to nearest match converter?
	<1992Sep30.143014.10063@ims.com>

Excerpts from netnews.comp.windows.x: 30-Sep-92 Re: Color string to
nearest.. Antonio Freixas@peacock. (857)

> The original code (Which I didn't quote completely) used XLookupColor
> followed by XAllocColor, which has basically the same restriction.  So
> I still think that the short routine I proposed does the same thing as
Rainer's code (minus the fprintf output).

Oops, the above is correct.  I was thinking of XParseColor. (Which is
superior IMHO, since you are not restricted to colors which happen to be
in the database.)

Sorry for the misinformation.

-Rob
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: sd344@city.ac.uk (SHARPE P A)
Subject: QUERY: setting up a ``cut'' translation
Organization: The City University
Distribution: comp
Date:  5 Oct 92 09:03:39 GMT

Does anyone know how I can set up a translation which allows me
to cut text from xpostit windows by binding (something!) to
the Cut key (F20) on a Sun keyboard.

sd344@city.ac.uk

-- 
Paul Sharpe, Unix System Programmer, City University

+44 (0)71 477 8000 x3758
Internet: P.A.Sharpe@city.ac.uk
From: ls@inf.rl.ac.uk (Lakshmi Sastry)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: PHIGS - PEX Help
Date: 6 Oct 92 09:33:23 GMT
Organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Informatics Department, U.K.

Thanks to all of you who answered my query regarding PEX not supporting monochrome display. Is there anyone
who uses other implementations of PHIGS that extends support to monochrome? Alternatively, is there a patch
I can get?

Many thanks in advance.
Lakshmi.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,news.answers
From: jck@kimba.catt.citri.edu.au (Justin Kibell)
Subject: Average width for text.
Keywords: XLib
Organization: CATT Centre at CITRI, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 03:57:09 GMT

Unless I have missed it, I don't think you can get the average width of a char
from any font or char structure like you can in windows (I am told). I know you can use XTextWidth etc. but I need to know the average width of a char for a particular font.

Has anyone any suggestions or maybe it could be placed in the XFontStruct one
day in future releases. 

PS: XLib on X11 R4 - don't know about R5.


Justin Kibell: SDL 88 GR Case Tool Development Project - XMelba Version 0.13
               Centre for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications	
               Collaborative Information Technology Research Institute
               jck@jaguar.catt.citri.edu.au		Phone: +61 3 282 2456

                        "God is real, unless declared integer"
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: yuri@physics.heriot-watt.ac.UK (Yuri Rzhanov)
Subject: IMAKE on DEC
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 08:30:01 GMT


Hi X-perts,

could someone explain me how to write correct Imakefile
on DEC workstation 5000/25 ?

The problem is: I need to link some unusual libraries (like
libXpm.a, my own, etc.). On Sun, I defined them as LOCAL_LIBRARIES
and everything was fine. But on DEC, the target depends not only
on $(SRCS) but also on $(DEPLIBS) which are defined to be equal
to $(LOCAL_LIBRARIES). So every time I'm trying to build my code
it says just before linking stage that it doesn't know how to rebuild
the libraries. What should I do? Now I defined my libraries as
EXTRA_LIBRARIES, and it works (thanks God), but I have a feeling
that it's not correct. 

I'm seeking the professional advise: is it a proper way to define
alien libraries on DEC or not? If it is, why there is such a
difference with Sun? Is it possible to write an Imakefile which
will work on both platforms without alterations ? (Now I have to
include something like #ifdef SunArchitecture to do that.

Thanks in advance,
	Yuri

yuri@uk.ac.hw.phy
From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Is there any way to re-direct audio output from host A to host B?
Date: 6 Oct 92 03:53:51 GMT
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

In article <92Sep30.204209.17517@acs.ucalgary.ca>, sze@enel.ucalgary.ca (Peter Sze) writes:

> Is there anyway of running x_soundtool in host A and ask it to
> redirect its output to host B.

> I would be able to change the DISPLAY to control the x_soundtool on
> my host but it didn't change the audio output to my host.

What you need here is a networked sound protocol, analogous to X, which
is a network window system protocol.

I believe there are also attempts to turn X into a workstation control
protocol instead of a window system protocol, which could also do what
you're after.

In both cases, I believe such things exist but don't know anything more
about them....

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: iscooibc@nuscc.nus.sg (Beng Chin)
Subject:  typedef - initialisation error
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 19:18:23 GMT


   hi everyone,

		I am new to C++ and X11/Motif and will appreciate 
	help of any kind.

		I don't really understand the error below. I guess
	it is requesting that I need to initialise the array, but 
	how I do I go about doing it?

		Would really appreciate reply and advice of 
	any kind.  Pse reply directly to   rob@kris.iscs.nus.sg.

		Thank you!


	Robin Seow 
	National University Of Singapore
		
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
typedef struct _menu_item {
	char 		*label;
	WidgetClass	*cl;
	char		mnemonic;
	char		*accelerator;
	char		*accel_text;
	void 		(*callback)();
	XtPointer	callback_data;
	struct _menu_item	*subitems;
	} MenuItem;

	
        MenuItem label_menu [] = {
		{ "Label String",(WidgetClass *)xmPushButtonGadgetClass,
 		'L', NULL, NULL,
	    	NULL, "label", (MenuItem *)NULL }, 
	   	NULL
	};
 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The error generated is as follows:

"WidgetAction.C", line 101: sorry, not implemented: 
                            general initializer in initializer list
*** Error code 1


Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: yho@janet.carleton.ca (Y. Ho(S.Kennedy))
Subject: PostScript file -> X11 bitmap
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:56:13 GMT

Any program to convert PostScript file to X11 bitmap file ???
From: hugues@afp.com (Hugues Lafarge)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: looking for arabic fonts
Date: 2 Oct 92 19:57:52 GMT
Organization: Axis Design 119 rue de Flandre, 75019 Paris, France


As the subject says, i'm looking for arabic fonts either
public domain or commercially available.
Could anyone on the net provide me with some pointers?

Also, i would like to know if there are any tools (xterm
for example) that allows right-to-left input of arabic
characters.

Please e-mail, i'll summarize if there is any interest.

Thanks in advance.
From: graham@cs.man.ac.uk (Graham Gough)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Clipboard vs Cut Buffer
Date: 2 Oct 92 13:53:51 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester


     Does anyone out there know of any magic whereby X applications
which read and write from the X cut buffer (like emacs), using
XStoreBytes and XFetchBytes,  can exchange things with Xview apps
(like commandtools) which use the clipboard? While on this subject, is
there an explanation somewhere of why there is need for two
mechanisms, or am I just missing something obvious?

Graham

(This could well be a FAQ, in which case apologies, but I couldn't
find it in any FAQ file)
From: rr2b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Andrew Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Color string to nearest match converter?
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:01:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.semB8Si00Woi5Bskhw
	<1992Sep29.144346.23858@ims.com>
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Excerpts from netnews.comp.windows.x: 29-Sep-92 Re: Color string to
nearest.. Antonio Freixas@peacock. (2771)


> Another comment:  It seems to me that the code listed by Rainer code
> be more easily implemented using XAllocNamedColor.  Wouldn't the
> following do the same things?

The problem with XAllocNamedColor is that it only recognizes color
Names, not specifications like:  #a0b0c0.

-Rob Ryan
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: elan@tasha.cheme.cornell.edu (Elan Feingold)
Subject: .ad files help
Reply-To: elan@tasha.cheme.cornell.edu (Elan Feingold)
Organization: Cornell University
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 19:45:54 GMT


when I copy, say, for example, XRn.ad to /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XRn, I would 
expect that when I next use xrn it would use the defaults, but it doesn't.
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

thanks, 

Elan

P.S. Replies by mail, please, as I can't keep up with this newsgroup :)

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From: meo@austin.ibm.com (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xdm and IBM RS6000
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:23:26 GMT
Reply-To: meo@austin.ibm.com (Miles O'Neal)
Organization: IBM AWD

haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch (Konrad Haedener) writes:
| ellis@athena.mit.edu (Steve Ellis) writes:
| |> 
| |>     I am having a problem with xdm on a IBM RS6000 (AIX3.2.2).  When
| 
| X11/R4 (IBM or MIT ?) or X11/R5 ?
| IBM's R4 xdm and xauth are broken. You have to patch the source to make
| them run as expected (or substitute them with the MIT versions).

If you have the X11dev lpp installed, you can build the xdm there, which
will run much better than the binary shipped with R4.  This is essentially
a snapshot of the MIT xdm at the time the release code was frozen.  In xdm's
case, this was probably late in 91.

You can call customer support and see if there is a fix, also.

DISCLAIMER: I'm a contractor, not a policy maker.  IBM and I speak
for ourselves, not each other.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: thinman@netcom.com (Technically Sweet)
Subject: X Input devices extensions: questions
Organization: International Foundation for Internal Freedom
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:26:14 GMT

Question #1:
	Are there any sample source files for an alternate keyboard
	available for study/hacking on?

Question #2:
	Will the X Input extension sources in R5 port to R4?
	My R4 is somewhat hacked  (AT&T 5.3.2 is pretty grody),
	and I'm not looking forward to an "upgrade" which does
	away with shared libraries.

The project in question is to make a MIDI keyboard (Casio electro-sax)
my alternate keyboard, in an experiment in keyboard ergonomics.

Thanks in advance,

Lance Norskog
-- 

Lance Norskog

Data is not information is not knowledge is not wisdom.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: ross@minnie.mit.edu (Ross Levinsky)
Subject: How do I get the server to find fonts?
Organization: Squalid Basement Lab in Building 3
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 23:14:05 GMT




Hi,

Here's an easy one. I've tried to get a greek version of xterm running,
and I've gotten the proper fonts. However, when I start the greek
version running, it complains that it can't find the necessary fonts.
How do I tell the server/resource manager/whatever-it-is that I've
installed new fonts and they're in location /wherever/it/is?

What's weird is that I put the new ones in the fonts/misc directory,
from which kterm has NO PROBLEM finding Japanese fonts. So what now? 

Thanks in advance...


				Ross

				ross@mecha.mit.edu