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From: johannes@ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de (Johannes Viegener)
Subject: xtank on DECstation 5000/200 ULTRIX4.2
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:15:09 GMT

Does someone has succesfully built xtank1.3d ona DECstation 5000/200?
All I got is a lot of errors, concerning redeclarations of malloc, etc.
Any help is appreciated!

Regards,  Johannes

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jdhaney@benthos.tamu.edu (j d haney)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: xloadimage won't set the root window on a DECstation
Keywords: n
Date: 7 Apr 92 20:27:44 GMT
Reply-To: jdhaney@benthos.tamu.edu
Followup-To: comp.windows.x
Organization: Texas A&M University

> 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.

xloadimage displays on the root window of our dec 5000/200 PXG just
fine.  i had to go into the root.c file and comment out the code
that does special things for DECwindows.  xloadimage ran fine after
that.  (same error message as original poster before i changed the
code.)  i run mwm.

jdhaney@benthos.tamu.edu         / witticism :)
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.sysv
From: shocking@cxbne.cx.OZ.AU (Steve Hocking)
Subject: SpeedUp & DEC WRL Research reports.
Organization: Comperex Australia Pty Limited
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 23:56:15 GMT
Summary: Here is the title of the paper.
Keywords: paper, dec, X


	Some time ago I posted an article which mentioned a paper from the
DEC WRL site which dealt with optimising performance of dumb Colour Frame
buffers. I received a few requests asking me how to get hold of this paper,
but have lost the bits of mail telling me who they were.

	The way you do it is by sending mail to
WRL-Techreports@decwrl.dec.com with "help" in the subject line. It will then
tell you how to ask for an index & how to get hold of the papers in various
formats. They have a lot of good stuff there - I'd strongly recommend
looking at it.

	Cheers,

	Stephen
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From: cosmo@cherry.ucsb.edu (Burtin;Boris;;;;COMS;Undergraduate;920630;;;8-402525-19906-7;1000)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Help with installing X11R5 in /usr/local
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:25:27 GMT

I have installed R5 into the default directories in the past, with no problems.
Now I'm trying to install it into /usr/local/X11.  Here's what "make install"
gives me:

cc -o xterm.inst main.o input.o ... -L/usr/local/X11/lib -lXaw -lXmu -lXt \
	-lX11 -Bdynamic -L/usr/local/X11/lib -ltermcap
ld: -lXaw: no such file or directory
*** Error code 4

I've tried setting my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to /usr/local/X11/lib, but that didn't
seem to help.  I'm compiling on a Sun Sparc SLC running SunOS 4.1.2.  I'd
appreciate any help I can get.  Thanks,


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From: anderl@kommu.UUCP (Horst Anderl)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XWD/XPR alternatives?
Date: 16 Apr 92 11:19:40 GMT
Organization: Siemens AG, AUT OIL NI Lab's Franconia, (Erl.)

Hi :-

I'm looking for an X window dumping/printing tool like xwd/xpr that allows 
output of color images on a b/w printer (public domain or commercial tool). 
I understand that xpr has got a 'grey' option in R4 but it doesn't work 
in SCO ODT. 
Besides, I would like to have printer support for non-postscript printers
like the HP DeskJet 500 C (HP PCL, L3).

I thought about combining xwd and the pbmplus tool ?! 

System configuration: i486, SCO ODT 1.1, X11R3/R4, Motif 1.1  

All hints are appreciated!

Horst

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From: doug@nmri.ge.COM (Doug Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11R5 Font Server Questions
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:45:18 GMT
Organization: The Internet


    1. Is FS really necessary for regular X clients?

It depends on your situation.  If all the fonts you want to use are
locally accessible and are in a format your X server can understand,
then no, fs isn't strictly necessary (but it could still be a win by
simplifying font administration).  fs is most valuable in a network
context, where fonts can be shared between all kinds of displays using
a single protocol.

Another benefit of fs is that it's separate from the X server.  For
example, the X server is free to continue processing while fs performs
a time-consuming font load or scale.  And if fs is running on a faster
machine than the one your display's running on -- you get the idea.

       What format should the parameter 'servername' have?

RTFM (fs(1)). On my machine, the string looks like
"tcp/hostname:7000".

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jerryl@is.morgan.com (Jerry Liebelson)
Subject: Looking for a history of user interfaces leading to X
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Company, Inc.
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 19:41:51 GMT

Can someone recommend a good article, online file, or book that has 
a comprehensive history of user interfaces (including developmental work)
that directly or indirectly lead to the development of X windows?
Please email replies.

Thanks
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From: twebb@convex.com (Tracy Webb)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: SIG UIST Info ???
Date: 13 Apr 92 19:23:43 GMT
Article-I.D.: convex.1992Apr13.192343.23235
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

I am interested in going to a User Interface specific conference and SIGCHI has
been recommended to me, however, that's all the information I have at this
point.  Does anyone have any information on this conference??  Or know of 
where the best place to look for such information might be???

Thanks - 


Tracy 

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Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:9650 comp.windows.x.motif:3072
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Too Many Global Variables
From: ray@grumpy.ksc.nasa.gov (Ray Ho)
Date: 7 Apr 92 12:57:25 EST
Distribution: world
Organization: MDSSC-KSC
Keywords: Global Variables, OOP, Software Engineering 


    Hi everybody,

    We have used X/Motif for quite a while on medium size to large size
    projects. We experienced that using global variables are hard to 
    avoid. Everytime we try to eliminate the global variables, our 
    programs get messier. 

    Is that because we did not follow strict software engineering 
    discipline or that is something X/Motif, and maybe OOP, have to live 
    with?

    I would like to know your opinion on this issue, and also may be you
    can tell me whether there is a book or paper dealing with "Object 
    Oriented" programming style and/or coding standard, especially relates 
    to eliminating global variables. 

    I appreciate you can send email directly to me, I will summarize it.

    Many thanks in advance.


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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: smitty@essnj1.essnjay.com (Hibbard T. Smith JR)
Subject: X11R5 xdm problems
Summary: I can't get rid of the login widget.
Keywords: X11R5 xdm 
Organization: ESSNJAY Systems Inc.
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 02:33:26 GMT

I have X11R5 working, using the X386 server on an ISC 2.2.1 system.  
However, I have (at least) 1 problem:

xdm brings up the server ok.  Then it brings up a login window.  I log in,
the login window goes away and then returns.  My xterm, xclock, xbiff, and
twm all come up also.  The new login window is under control of the window
manager.  It (the login window) captures all keyboard input regardless of where
the pointer is.  Since it's under twm control, I can iconify it, and then it
releases the keyboard.  I can use the session normally from then on (with
the login window iconified).  To exit the session, I must uniconify (is this
a word?) the login window, and use the abort session key.  This brings down
the server and one process of the xdm.  However, an xdm process is left
running.  It does repeated wait() system calls as fast as it can, and uses
all the available CPU until killed.

If anyone has had a similar problem, I would appreciate any pointers on 
how to resolve it.  My Xservers file looks like:

	local:0 local /usr/local/X11R5/bin/X :0

I'm not sure this is correct, but it's all I could figure out, since local
connections don't exist with this combination.  (No unixconn)  It's not a
remote server, but it's not ":0" or "unix:0" either.  Since it's running 
on this machine though, I'd like xdm to start it.

Thanks in advance for any help ....

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From: srj@compsci.stirling.ac.UK (Steve_Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Please remove me
Date: 15 Apr 92 15:37:24 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Please remove me from the mailing list.
From: ziggy@grafted.UUCP (anthony lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X for Linux
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:26:31 GMT
Organization: GRAFTED, Central Indiana's Usenet BBS 317-881-4369

I dont know if my last posting actually made it here since noone even 
commented, but has anyone thought about porting X to Linux, or what is
involved in the porting of X to systems..... Thanks.

                                                Ziggy.
 BTW, someone please reply so I know my mail server is operating ok.....

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From: eroethke@ems.cdc.com (Earl Roethke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Bad screen geometry on second screen
Keywords: RS6000, screen, geometry, R5
Date: 8 Apr 92 15:55:05 GMT
Reply-To: eroethke@ems.cdc.com
Followup-To: comp.windows.x
Organization: Empros Systems International, a division of CDC


We recently built R5, so I tried out a program that had been working on
both screens at R3.

The relevant code fragment is shown below:

-----------------cut here-------
Display *display;
int     screen;
unsigned int  display_width, display_height;

 if ((display = XOpenDisplay(NULL)) == NULL) {
		 printf("\n Couldn't open display!\n");
		 exit(1);
 }

 display_width = DisplayWidth(display, screen);
 display_height = DisplayHeight(display, screen);

 printf("\n Root Window Size = %d x %d \n", display_width, display_height);
-------------------cut here--------------

At R5, this works fine on screen 0 and displays:

Root Window Size = 1280 x 1024

On screen 1, however, it displays:

Root Window Size = 524402 x 1280

and a subsequent root window geometry request fails as well as an attempt
to create a new child window of the root.

Is this a known bug?  If so, does one of the fixes address it? (I looked
at the fix comments but didn't see anything that directly addressed this)

Some details: AIX 3.1.5 with 2 hfts.

Thanks in advance for any help.
-- 
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eroethke@ems.cdc.com
From: steinarb@idt.unit.no (Steinar Bang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: twm won't take IconRegion command in the .twmrc
Date: 8 Apr 92 09:49:11 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway

>>>>> On 7 Apr 92 14:48:03, steinarb@idt.unit.no (Steinar Bang) said:

> I have never gotten twm (whether it be Tom's or Tab, my .twmrc have
> been following my in mutated versions all the way from X11R3) to take
> the IconRegion directive.

Thanx to all who replied!

It is necessary to use a complete geometry specification. Thus, I now
use:
	  IconRegion "150x800-0+160" North East 1 2

And this seems to work well (most of the time) in tiling icons along
the right hand side of the display.

- Steinar
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: pan@panda.Stanford.EDU (Doug Pan)
Subject: Help needed with remapping keyboard
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: ca
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:36:39

I'd like perform text select and paste from my keyboard and not have
to use the mouse buttons.  Is there a way?  Please reply by email.

Sorry if this is a FAQ.
From: obelix@konech.UUCP (Franz Furch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11 Server for Interactive UNIX Vers. 3.0
Date: 8 Apr 92 09:36:50 GMT
Organization: Kontron Elektronik GmbH Eching, Germany

Hello X gurus,

I need information about the changes to the X11 server interface in Interactive
UNIX from Version 2.2 to Version 3.0. I'm in charge of an X11 server which is 
build in accordance to "The 386/ix X11 Smart Board Interface Specification 
Version 1.2" dated January 1989 and have to port this server to Interactive 
UNIX 3.0 but SunSoft Germany isn't able to give me any information about the 
changes or new versions of the Interface Specification manual.

This is very urgent please !!!
Thanks a lot.

Franz Furch (alias obelix )

Email: ...!mcvax!unido!konech!obelix
From: strat@cutlass.ksu.ksu.edu (Steve Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X Programming Tutorial?
Date: 16 Apr 1992 02:00:36 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: cutlass.ksu.ksu.edu

I am looking for a tutorial in programming X in C.  An on line
.txt, .ps, or .tex document would be perfect!  Thanks in advance.

(Before you mail me wanting this information, I'll post a summary!)

Stratocaster

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From: ltg@pc-labor.uni-bremen.de (Lothar Guthmann)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Bug in xrn on rs6000/AIX3.1.5
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:18:43 GMT
Organization: University of Bremen, pc-labor

Hi folks,

I have the following problem with xrn:

After resizing the window of xrn i'm not able to post, reply or follow-up.
I got a popup window with the message "Caught signal 11..." or something
like that.
Version of xrn currently being used: 6.17

Any hints? Any patches?

Thanx in advance.

Lothar
From: matsj@ios.CMD.UU.SE (Mats Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Caching pixmaps
Date: 10 Apr 92 09:44:04 GMT
Reply-To: Mats.Johnson@CMD.UU.SE
Distribution: comp
Organization: CMD - Center for human computer studies, Uppsala University


A pixmap is always stored in the server, and only referenced by the
client. An XImage is the client-side equivalent. There is also an
extension where the pixmap can be in shared memory if the client and
server are on the same machine.

So, the answer is NO, 90,000 bytes are not sent to the X server every
time XCopyArea is called. And YES there is ALWAYS the caching you
refer to, as long as you are speaking of pixmaps and not XImages.

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From: converse@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Donna Converse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XtDestroyWidget Questions
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:51:29 GMT
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science


>  I seem to be having a problem with XtDestroyWidget (or so I think).

This is a recurring Intrinsics question and the answer is in the 
documentation for XtDestroyWidget, so please read it and think about it.


> Here are the particulars:
>
> 	The following code segment creates a toplevel shell which contains
>         a rowcolumn widget containing 40 togglebuttons.  After realizing
> 	the toplevel, I call a function which prints out the widget tree by
> 	walking it.  The callback for the togglebuttons first destroys the
>         rowcolumn widget, syncs, and then prints out the widget tree again.
>         Unfortunately, the two lists are the same!  I expected that there
>         would not be any widgets in the tree after the XtDestroyWidget.


The following was authored by Swick and Asente:

  When you call XtDestroyWidget from within a procedure called as a result
  of event dispatching -- i.e. an event handler, an action procedure, or
  any procedure called from one of these, including callbacks -- the widget
  is marked as being destroyed but is not actually destroyed.  This prevents
  the widget data structures from disappearing out from under the event
  dispatcher, and allows applications to execute callback procedures and
  action procedures without having to worry about data structures 
  disappearing from underneath them.  When the current event dispatch is
  complete, the widgets are actually destroyed.  This includes calling
  their XtNdestroyCallback callbacks and their Destroy procedures.


Donna Converse
MIT X Consortium
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: xiong@shape.mps.ohio-state.edu ( )
Subject: Help needed for Xfonts
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 18:34:18 GMT

I want to install cxterm which is a Chinese X window software. 
I have those Chinese fonts. But, my problem is: I can not install the 
fonts in the directories where our usual fonts are in. 
I have to install the fonts in a subdirectory of my home directory. 
I suppose, then, use "xset fp+ directory path" to set the
path so that I can use the fonts. However, after I did so, 
xset is always ignore the path I want. So, I can not use the fonts
at all. Can anyone give me some help? 

Our system is Sun4 with X11R5 windows. The fonts are orginally
in bdf formats. I can use bdftosnf to transfer the fonts to snf formats.

Please reply by email. I do not read the group often.

C. Xiong
Ohio State University.
From: rypma@hppad.waterloo.hp.com (Ted Rypma)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: WANTED:GIF to X windows Bitmap converter
Date: 14 Apr 92 02:56:51 GMT
Organization: HP Panacom Div Waterloo ON Canada

Try the pbmplus package from Jef Poskanzer. From the pixutils-faq in
alt.graphics.pixutils:

7) Free image manipulation software.  There are a number of toolkits
for converting from one image format to another, doing simple image
manipulations such as size scaling, plus the above-mentioned 24 -> 8,
color -> gray, gray -> b&w conversions.  Here are pointers to some of
them:

    PBMPLUS, by Jef Poskanzer.  Comprehensive format conversion and image
    manipulation package.  The latest version is always available via
    anonymous FTP as ftp.ee.lbl.gov:pbmplus*.tar.Z,
    wuarchive.wustl.edu:graphics/graphics/packages/pbmplus/pbmplus*.tar.Z,
    and export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/pbmplus*.tar.Z.

    IM Raster Toolkit, by Alan Paeth (awpaeth@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca).
    Provides a portable and efficient format and related toolkit.  The
    format is versatile in supporting pixels of arbitrary channels,
    components, and bit precisions while allowing compression and machine
    byte-order independence.  The kit contains more than 50 tools with
    extensive support of image manipulation, digital halftoning and format
    conversion.  Previously distributed on tape c/o the University of
    Waterloo, an FTP version will appear someday.

    Utah RLE Toolkit.  Conversion and manipulation package, similar to
    PBMPLUS.  Available via FTP as cs.utah.edu:pub/urt-*,
    weedeater.math.yale.edu:pub/urt-*, and freebie.engin.umich.edu:pub/urt-*.

    Fuzzy Pixmap Manipulation, by Michael Mauldin <mlm@nl.cs.cmu.edu>.
    Conversion and manipulation package, similar to PBMPLUS.  Version 1.0
    available via FTP as nl.cs.cmu.edu:/usr/mlm/ftp/fbm.tar.Z,
    uunet.uu.net:pub/fbm.tar.Z, and ucsd.edu:graphics/fbm.tar.Z.

    Img Software Set, by Paul Raveling <raveling@venera.isi.edu>.  Reads and
    writes its own image format, displays on an X11 screen, and does some
    image manipulations.  Version 1.3 is available via FTP as
    export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/img_1.3.tar.Z, and
    venera.isi.edu:pub/img_1.3.tar.Z along with a large collection of color
    images.

And more...

Ted Rypma
HP Panacom (X terminal) Division
From: wu@rodin.wustl.EDU (Yuan Lan Wu)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Help needed
Date: 12 Apr 92 18:33:08 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Dear Friend:

I am using Athena Widgets to create my application interface. I have 
some basic questions needed to be answered. Please contact me if 
anyone can help me. Thanks.

Alan
From: csvsj@garnet.berkeley.edu (Steve Jacobson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Scrolling Window widgets with LARGE child
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:17:49 GMT
Reply-To: csvsj@garnet.berkeley.edu (Steve Jacobson)
Organization: ucb
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

All of the scrolling widgets I am familiar with (HP SWindow, Athena Paned)
manage a child widget that they move with the XtMoveWidget() call. The coordinate
arguments are Position type variables, so problems occur when the height
(or width) of the child is larger than 32K.

Has anyone run into this problem before? In a spreadsheet-like application, it
seems to me you would want a less restrictive upper limit. Are there
scrolling window widgets out there that manage their child in a more "virtual"
manner? - the child widget size doesn't track its underlying "virtual" layout;
instead it "juggles" what is displayed in the scrolling window in response to
scrolling actions.

Steve
From: mike@murignis.mchp.sni.de (Mike Hoffmann)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xterm<(tv)twm<xdm<rc still fails on SVR4
Date: 9 Apr 92 07:33:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: murignis.1992Apr9.073339.2271
Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG, AP 712


Hello!

I'm having problems with starting a xterm client from (tv)twm menus.
(tvtwm started under .xsession from xdm)

xterm quits with ERROR_OPDEVTTY.

I looked into the source and by coincidence still had an main.c.orig
from some patchlevel previous to PL10. There I found that this is a known
problem, but the code seemed to have been fixed in later patches.

Unfortunately here it isn't. Our SVR4 implementation is based on
SVR 4.0 and 4.1. Both fail. X is 5 PL 9. I have patch 10, but haven't installed
it yet. Also, it seems to contain no SVR4 fix.

Can anyone help? Is there another client I could use (exterm, cxterm),
where the code is cleaner maybe? :-)

Maybe a clean work-around, as all seems to work fine when I start the 
WM from the shell)

Cheers
Mike
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