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From: scstech@solomon.technet.sg (Arthur Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: REPOST: Looking for site/source to get Motif Virtual WM
Date: 8 Apr 92 03:17:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: nuscc.1992Apr8.031704.27527
Organization: Singapore Computer Systems Ltd


Hi fellow-netters,

I posted a similar request earlier but have not gotten any replies. So
here goes the request again.

I've heard that there exists a version of virtual window manager for
Motif (most recently in the latest X FAQ). I am very interested in
getting a copy of it. Can someone kindly point me to the source where I
can obtain it (never mind if it is a beta, or buggy, or ...).

Thanks in advance for any pointers and hints.


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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jerrold@netcom.com (Ronald Gailey)
Subject: xterm slave mode ?
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 15:37:19 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

This should probably be in the FAQ, but I was unable to find it.

What is the definition of slave mode (trigger via -Sxxd) ?  From
reading the man pages I was lead to believe that slave mode would
allow the xterm client to read input from stdin, then display it
in the window.

This seemed very germaine to my environment where
we have a variety of real-time control applications that have been
ported from a PDP-11 RSX system, and have the ability (thru their
configuration files) to output their messages to character terminals
or named output files.  In this porting effort, we would like to have
the applications also be able to output to xterm windows if the config
file contained a string starting with xterm.  The thought was that if
the application forked to create a child, then used close and dup
appropriately to connect stdout of the parent to stdin of the child, and
then execed an xterm in slave mode, that data output from the parent's
stdout would appear in the xterm window.  Obviously, my understanding of
slave mode is lacking, as it appears slave mode has nothing to do with
stdin/stdout.  If any one would leave me a definition regarding what
really happens in slave mode, it would be greatly appreciated.

Also, if anyone has an idea about re-directing an application's stdout
into an xterm without making the application a child of the xterm via 
the -e argument (that's not possible given the nature of the software
being ported), that information would also be greatly appreciated.

Thanx in advance.

P.S.  We are running X11R4 under Interactive sysV 3.2 ver 3.0 on 486.


Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jxt@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov (TOLLIVER J S)
Subject: Re: Where is Ken Olsen's internet address??
Reply-To: jxt@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov (TOLLIVER J S)
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 13:13:43 GMT

>|>Does anyone have the internet address of Ken Olsen so I can
>
>No, I don't have his address. However, if you're using DEC's SUPPORTED version
>of Motif, it's 1.1 . Try using their UNSUPPORTED (but available) version,

Actually, I seem to recall reading about a year ago that Ken Olsen had
cancelled his email account and announced that he would no longer accept
email after returning from a trip and finding over 30 feet of email messages
awaiting his return.

Any confirmation of this rumor?
From: mahan@tgv.COM (Patrick L. Mahan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Questions about DECWindows under VMS
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:04:42 GMT
Organization: The Internet

#
#DECWINDOWS on VAX/VMS 5.4 and upwards is X11R4 compliant
#

No it is not.  Simply check the Intrinsic.h file for the following

	XtSpecificationRelease

Which is not defined until X11R4.  VMS systems that load DECwindows
from the operating system distribution tape DO NOT have X11R4 compliant
libraries.  They are X11R3 compliant.

You must load DECwindows/Motif to obtain X11R4 compliant libraries.  This
is not released along with the operating system.

Patrick L. Mahan

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From: zlsiimw@mcchpc.mcc.ac.uk (Mark Whidby)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help needed with x3270 font installation
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:28:18 GMT
Reply-To: M.Whidby@mcc.ac.uk
Organization: Manchester Computing Centre

In article <72916@netnews.upenn.edu>, smithje@pobox.upenn.edu (Joe Smith) writes:
|> Could someone give a novice a hand - I can't get x3270 to use the 3270
|> font under X11R5.  I had it working in R4, but now ?  I ran bdftopcf
|> and copied the x3270 font to misc fonts directory and ran mkfontdir,
|> but I still get the message 'Warning: Cannot convert string "3270" to
|> type FontStruct'.

I had this problem last week. I cured it by sticking the following in either
X3270 app-defaults or in the equivalent of .Xdefaults:-

x3270.font:    3270

Hope this works.
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From: DAVE@csvax1.ucc.ie
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: signing on
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:11:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

sorry to have to post this directly to the list, but we have several users here
who need access to this list, but do not seem to be in the servers domain.
Could you give some information on how to be added to the listserv, and i will
add this list to the bulletin, thanks

Dave


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From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Single application context for multiple displays
Keywords: app
Date: 7 Apr 92 07:28:41 GMT
Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: tommy

In article <1992Apr3.085754@se28.wg2.waii.com>, starr@wg2.waii.com (Bob
Starr) writes:
|> Has anyone tried to use a single application context to access
|> multiple displays?  I have a sample program that occasionally
|> core dumps with a signal SEGV somewhere inside the XtAppNextEvent
|> function.

Sure. I have written a small sample application you can use to open
hundreds of displays and stuff them all into a single application context.
Works fine. And even catches broken connections. However, due to lack of a
real Xlib support for such cases, it uses the ugly setjmp/longjmp trick.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows,comp.windows.x
From: iczer@sdf.lonestar.org (Ted Uhlemann)
Subject: alternatives to X?
Organization: sdf Public Access UNIX, Dallas--unrestricted free shell access
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 02:27:03 GMT

I'm curious about whether there are any alternative UNIX windowing systems
to X.  I recently read the papers on the Plan 9 operating system and I like
what they're doing with the "8 1/2" window system.  Is there anything similar
for UNIX?  Could 8 1/2 be easily ported to UNIX?
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Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:10026 comp.sys.mac.misc:9167
From: mayoun1@pb2esac.UUCP (Mike Young)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Macintosh X-Terminal Emulator?
Keywords: Mac X-Terminal
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:53:46 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.mac.misc
Distribution: usa
Organization: Pacific*Bell ESAC, Oakland, Ca.


 I am looking for an X-Terminal program for the Macintosh that will
 run over a serial(19.2K) or modem(9.6k) connection with reasonable 
 performance. I have several remote sites that have a need to occasionally
 run an X application in a Sun host.  Any products come to mind???

Mike Young
Pacific Bell

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: sbw@kzin.eel.ufl.edu (Sam Whedbee)
Subject: Mach, X11R5, and TRIDENT video card
Keywords: Mach
Organization: EE computer teaching labs
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 19:15:26 GMT

I just installed X11R5 on a 386 running the Mach operating system.
The only problem is that the R5 server is throwing fits with
my TRIDENT  SVGA card:

fatal server error, can't find screen

This may be a configuration problem with how I have /usr/X11R5/lib/Xconfig
set up.  Anyway,  I heard that a while ago, there was a big discussion
and several articles posted on how to set up the Xconfig file
for all sorts of video cards.

If anyone could mail me the articles or information and/or repost them
to comp.windows.x,  I would greatly appreciate it.

thanks in advance.

-Sam
From: kettering@addvax.llnl.gov (Brett 'Volleyball Is My Game' Kettering)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Augmenting the known widget set of UIL
Date: 13 Apr 92 22:48:00 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.40

Hi there,

I have the version of UIL delivered with my Motif license.  It handles the
motif widget set (well it doesn't have dialog shells) well enough, but I
want to be able to add widgets to it.  I know that there is a file somewhere
that determines the parse rules for the UIL, but I don't remember where it
is and can't find any info in FAQ's or the V1.1 book for Motif.

Has anyone ever added widgets to the UIL?  Can you point me to some`
instructions on how to do it?

Thanks,

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From: envbvs@epb9.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: command button stays in reverse video after popping up widget
Keywords: X11R5
Date: 9 Apr 92 19:05:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: dog.22608
Organization: lbl
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.98

In article <22606@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, I said:

|> I have a box widget that contains several command widgets, each of which
|> can popup a widget.  When the command widget was clicked upon, it would
|> go to reverse video to show that it was selected, but then go
|> back to normal video, after which the  was popped up.
|> This worked fine under R4.
|> 
|> However, when I compile it against the R5 libraries and you click
|> on the command widget it STAYS in reverse video forever.  Even after
|> the popup menu is dismissed.
|> 
|> Another user has noticed this problem.
|> Here is the (greatly reduced) code. 
|> Has anyone else seen this problem?
|> By the way,  if I don't have the command widget popup the popup then
|> it doesn't say in reverse video.

I found the problem.  I was doing an XtSetInsensitive on the enclosing
form widget when I popped up the popup widget and this worked fine 
under R4, but under R5 it keeps the command button in reverse video.

The solution is to set only the command widget in the form to Insensitive.

Why did this change in R5?
--
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Craig Carpenter)
Subject:  X Inter/Intra Client Communications
Reply-To: ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Craig Carpenter)
Organization: Harris GISD
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 17:38:11 GMT

--

Would like to get some responses on ways to do ICCM within clients and
between clients. I 
have got some things working within a client and need to be able to pass
data via X to another
client. (using XSetTextProperty, XChangeWindowProperty, XInternAtom,
XGetTextProperty, etc)

The potential is that other servers and clients will all need to work
and play together on a single
display and data will need to be passed between each of them.

What I have found so far is that when creating a new atom I can set text
data to my atom and
retrieve only parts of it within a single application. If I attempt this
process in another application
I get garbage data.

Anybody got some ideas ??????

Thanks

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Subject: Re: Motif vs Open-look vs X
Organization: none
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 19:53:31 GMT

In article <1992Apr8.221211.27335@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> jarober@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (DE Robertson james an 410-740-9172) writes:
>	For Motif, it comes shipped on many platforms, and I believe that 
>the royalty (license ?) fee is $50.00 per app shipped. This is more
>expensive than OpenLook, but considering the cost of the average Unix
>app, it's not too bad.

There is not, and has never been, a royalty for shipping Motif
applications _unless_ you are also shipping the libraries separate
from the product.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jstimson@hmcvax.claremont.edu
Subject: MS-DOS X Server with SLIP support???
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Date: 6 Apr 92 13:37:46 PST

I am looking for an X server for MS-DOS (386 with ATI VGAWonder) that supports
Internet Protocol Serial Links (SLIP).  I have access to a SLIP link, but not
Ethernet.  I really don't want a program that runs under MS-Windows - it's too
much of a power-suck to be used for anything besides word processing.  I'm also
curious about prices for the various packages that support SLIP.
							- John
Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:9785 comp.unix.ultrix:3774
From: williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Dec clients blow Sun Server's mind
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:27:52 GMT
Reply-To: williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams)
Followup-To: comp.windows.x
Organization: U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

I recently built the client side stuff from X11R4(PL18) on a Dec VAXStation
running Ultrix 4.1.  All of the R4 clients (as well as the Dec-supplied
R3 clients like dxterm) cause the Sun Openwindows 2.0 Server to spew
incomprehensible messages on the console, and remote clients can no longer
connect.  The message I get (on the Sun side) is this:

Process: 0x2548fc (X Listener %socketl6000)   Error: stackunderflow
Stack:
Executing: 'pop'
At: {packedarray{4} 'stopped' 'pop' *'pop' 'closefile' 'dup' (r) 'file'}
In: {... 4 'index' append 'put' packedarray{8} *'loop'}

Which looks to be some sort of display postscript debugging message.

1. Is this a Sun or a DEC problem?
2. Can it be made to go away?

Please respond by mail, since I can't keep up with the traffic in
comp.windows.x (or comp.unix.ultrix, for that matter)

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Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:9585 comp.unix.ultrix:3715
From: jwilson@nordsieck.cs.colorado.edu (John Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: xloadimage won't set the root window on a DECstation
Summary: is it 24 bit?
Keywords: n
Date: 6 Apr 92 16:51:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: colorado.1992Apr6.165137.15268
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder


    If I remember correctly,  xloadimage has never been able to display on
    the root window on our 24 bit decstations.  Also, when we got our new
    dec 5000/240 and went to ultrix 4.2a,  xloadimage started having
    problems displaying large images.  Because of this xv was installed.

    John Wilson
From: nancyp@techbook.com (Nancy Parsons)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Full-screen windows
Summary: How do you make a full-screen window that can't be resized?
Keywords: X, windows, help
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:41:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: techbook.1992Apr9.054136.14502
Organization: TECHbooks of Beaverton Oregon - Public Access Unix

This is probably a stupid newbie question, but what the hell - 

I'm writing (trying to write) a menu system in X, and would like
to have a login screen that takes up the whole screen, and can't be
resized or iconized - how do I do this? 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Nancy

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From: envbvs@epb9.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: command button stays in reverse video after popping up widget
Date: 9 Apr 1992 18:48:33 GMT
Organization: lbl
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.98
Keywords: X11R5

Sorry, forgot to say:

Ultrix 4.0, X11R5 patched to fix-10,  
Dec Vaxstation II/GPX (color) and Vaxstation II (monochrome)

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: amir@matis.UUCP (Amir Katz)
Subject: Xt Translation Questions
X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 11: 55:28 IST
Reply-To: matis!ingr.COM!amir%matis.UUCP@uunet.uu.net
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 13:51:13 GMT

Hi Folks,
That's my first posting to this mailing-list/newsgroup, so please bear with
me...
This question relates to a specific application, but it's a general problem:

I'm trying to modify 'xzap' application, posted recently to comp.sources.x.
The application has a pane with some button, and a list widget which is
regenerated when the function called 'Ps()' is called.
I have added the 'Ps' to the action table, as shown below, so it can be
referred externally, e.g. from the user's .Xdefaults:

xzap.c:
-------
XtActionsRec actionTable[] =
{
    {"Quit", Quit}, /* original code has only this...*/
    {"Ps", Ps}      /* so I added this               */
};

~/.Xdefaults:
-------------
   xzap*translations:	#override\n\
	<Btn3Down>:	Ps()

So far, so good - I click the rightmost button and, voila! Ps() is indeed
called.

My problem is that I want 'Ps()' to be invoked every time the xzap
application is mapped (i.e. de-iconified) and/or redrawn (due to an Expose
event.) When I modified my .Xdefaults to say:
   xzap*translations:	#override\n\
	<MapNotify>:	Ps()
the Ps() was being called infinitely without expose or map events. Since I
don't believe that so many events were in the queue, I must be doing
something wrong.
I tried to add my own Xt event handler, but it didn't work, and besides,
adding it thru the translation mechanism is the politically correct way to
do it, isn't it?

Any hints?

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From: mahan@tgv.COM (Patrick L. Mahan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Colormap Structure
Date: 14 Apr 92 05:42:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

# 
#      I need to determine if a specific Colormap has been installed.
#   I believe that I can accomplish this by using XListInstalledColormaps which
#   returns a list of Colormaps. In X.h, Colormap is defined as:
#     typedef XID Colormap where XID is an unsigned long.
# 
#   My question is, what is the structure, if any, of a Colormap? How do I 
#   determine if Colormap  "colormap_name" has been installed?

There is no structure available to you.  It is a server side resource, thus
you only see resource ID returned by the server.  I don't know of any way
of tracking a colormap ID except thru watching for Colormap install/deinstall
events.

Patrick L. Mahan

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From: bear@tigger.Colorado.EDU (Bear Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problem with translations under MOTIF (sort-of)
Date: 8 Apr 92 22:14:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: colorado.1992Apr8.221444.10364
Reply-To: bear@fsl.noaa.gov
Organization: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration / Boulder Labs

I've been trying, without success, to add keyboard control to
a design prototype through translations.  In my test program,
attached below, the translations for <Expose> and <EnterWindow>
work, but never for <ButtonPress> or <Key>.

Really confusing the matter, I am linking with the MOTIF library
but running under several different window managers -- but not mwm.

(I am running the program with client & server on different
machines.  Only one system has mwm, and when I try running it
it complains it can't open the display).


Bear Giles
bear@fsl.noaa.gov

------------------------------------------------------------
#define		_NO_PROTO
#include	<X11/Intrinsic.h>
#include	<X11/StringDefs.h>
#include	<Xm/Xm.h>
#include	<Xm/Label.h>

void	foo();

XtActionsRec	actions[] =
	{
	{	"foo", foo	},
	};


String	defaultTranslations =
	 "<KeyPress> : foo()  \n\
	  <ButtonPress> : foo() \n\
	  <Expose> : foo() \n\
	  <EnterWindow> : foo()";


void	foo()
	{
	printf ("foo!\n");
	}

void	main (argc, argv)
int		argc;
char	**argv;
	{
	XtAppContext appContext;
	Widget	topLevel, hello;
	XtTranslations	local;

	topLevel = XtVaAppInitialize (
		&appContext,
		"XHello",
		NULL, 0,			/*	command line option list */
		&argc, argv,		/*	command line args	*/
		NULL,
		NULL);

	hello = XtVaCreateManagedWidget (
		"hello",
		xmLabelWidgetClass,
		topLevel,
		NULL);

	XtRealizeWidget (topLevel);

	XtAppAddActions (appContext, actions, XtNumber (actions));
	local = XtParseTranslationTable (defaultTranslations);
	XtOverrideTranslations (topLevel, local);

	XtAppMainLoop (appContext);
	}