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From: jdlin@rodan.acs.syr.edu ()
Subject: Using X over the modem???
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 20:01:37 EST

Hi,
     I am new to use Unix and X-windows. I install Linux and Xfree386 on my
machine. After I using the kermit and modem to connect to a remote host, I 
try to execuate a remote X application. But I always got the following 
error message:

    
     window: Base frame not passed the parent window in environment.
     Cannot create base frame. Process aborted.

Who could help me to solve this problem? Thanks...

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jimw@empros.cxn.dec.com (Jim West)
Subject: Re: FAQ? X under ULTRIX
Reply-To: jimw@empros.enet.dec.com
Organization: Random Mixed
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:40:38 GMT


In article <pgdga.16.0@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de>, pgdga@ibm.rz.tu-clausthal.de 
(Dirk Gajewski) writes:

|>Please, can you direct me to a site where I can ftp
|>X-windows for ULTRIX (I think it is 4.1)?


  We bundle it with the OS.  Is there something specific you are
looking for ?

-/ Jim /-
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: sbhatia@mary.fordham.edu (SABU)
Subject: how to create a button using XLIB????
Organization: Fordham University
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 14:57:00 GMT
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Distribution: usa
X-Posted-From: mary.fordham.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu


Hi,

    Could anybody out there guide me as to how one goes about
creating buttons using XLIB. The issues that I am very interested in
are for ex-: who supplies the colormap, the caller or does the
button widget create it's own colormap. How to change the color of the button
when user points to it and presses the mouse button. How do
you handle expose events, like for example, I create a button to quit.
I place it on some window, but that window gets covered by another window
when I raise this window I would like to restre the contents of
the button.


thanks,

sabu

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: achan@idaho.tdd.sj.nec.com (Amy Chan)
Subject: Re: Which version of x server am I running?
Organization: NEC-AM TDD, San Jose, California
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 22:18:18 GMT

In article <1992Nov6.215837.23500@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> c23mkb@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Mahesh Bagade) writes:
>
>Dear x-users,
>
>How do I find out which version of X server am I running?

Run the program "xdpyinfo". It will give you the vendor information and 
version of the X server for your display.


Amy

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Subject: Re: Multi-process XDraws
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 11:53:35 GMT

In article <182@io.trident.datasys.swri.edu>, johns@io.datasys.swri.edu (Stephen Johns) writes:

> Does anyone know why this does not work:

> Process A creates an X Window ( Window win; ).  Sends the win value
> via a socket to Process B.  Process B (apparently successfully)
> creates a gc using the win value.  BUT the XDraw functions to win do
> nothing.  There is no error, yet nothing is drawn in the X Window.

I'd have to see the programs.  It sounds like something fairly basic.
I assume process B opens its own connection to the server.  The most
likely thing that comes to mind is that process B isn't flushing the
request queue properly.  Try adding an XFlush call in process B, or for
debugging perhaps just use XSynchronize to turn on sychronous mode.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
From: josh@updike..sri.com (Josh Schroeter)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: HELP: can't log in to X
Keywords: help, login
Date: 12 Nov 92 04:25:20 GMT

I am having big problems trying to set up a user's account so he can log in to
X windows.  He's the only person in his department with an X terminal, and as
far as I can tell, he's one of two users who get the login failure message.
I gave him an empty home directory, thinking maybe there was some problem with
his startup files, but that didn't work.  Yet even users with non-existent home
directories can log in with no problem (they get put in /).
I also played around with xauth, thinking that might fix it, but no such luck.

Can anyone help?  I am going nuts here, burning a lot of time on this.

Many thanks,
Josh Schroeter      UNIX System Administrator      Integrated Systems, Inc.
josh@isi.com
From: oaf@vingmed.no (Ole Asbjorn Fadum)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: (none)
Date: 11 Nov 92 12:54:47 GMT
Organization: The Internet


Hi

I'm looking for a C++ interface to MOTIF. Is there
any developer with experience to share?
It must be available in source form, and possible
to distribute in a comercial product.

ole asbjorn fadum(oaf@vingmed.no)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: flee@synoptics.com (Frank Lee)
Subject: Re: probs with PANEL_LIST item
Reply-To: flee@synoptics.com
Organization:  Santa Clara, California.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:35:23 GMT

In article EJ3@nic.umass.edu, pwyoung@sandbox.hampshire.edu (Peter Young) writes:
>when I try to access the value PANEL_LIST_FIRST_SELECTED,
>or PANEL_VALUE via xv_get on an exclusive PANEL_LIST, I get
>the following error messages, respectively:
>
>XView warning: bad attribute, attr # 0x555f0a20
>
>XView warning: bad attribute, PANEL_VALUE
>
>how do I get the index of the selected item in an 
>*exclusive* PANEL_LIST_ITEM?
>
>my code looks something like this:
>
>i = (int)xv_get( panelItem, 
>                 PANEL_LIST_FIRST_SELECTED 
>                 /* or PANEL_VALUE*/);
>
>strcpy( string, (char *)xv_get( panelItem, 
>                                PANEL_LIST_STRING, 
>                                i) );
>    

I bet you were using OPENWIN 3.0 to compile and ran on OPENWIN 2.0.  
PANEL_LIST_FIRST_SELECTED is supported on 3.0 only, so make sure
your LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to the right library.

Frank 
Newsgroups: comp.window.x.motif,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.intrinsics
From: drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas S. Rand)
Subject: Re: HELP...Mouse events in PushButtonGadget
Organization: Open Software Foundation
Date: 12 Nov 92 10:59:43

In article <1992Nov12.143358.19866@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk> adrian@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (A Johnstone) writes:

   I need to be able to activate PushButtonGagdgets with all three mouse buttons
   rather than just the Select button.

   Normally I would use XtAddEventHandler with a ButtonPress mask to trap mouse
   presses in the push button, however as PushButtonGadgets aren't windows in
   their own right, this doesn't work (process killed on unaligned access).

   Setting up translations on the buttons doesn't work either for the same 
   reason.

   If it is of any help, the Gadgets are all children of a RowColumn widget 
   created with XmCreateRowColumn.

   They DO need to be Gadgets rather than ordinary Push Buttons as I have 400 of
   them up at the same time!

   Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

   Please e-mail to jamesd@cs.rhbnc.ac.uk

I don't do email.

You can't do it.  Gadgets have no window,  hence
they can't have Intrinsics handlers installed on them.  What's more,
you can't change their translations.

You might be able to augment the translations on the Manager parent.
But please remember that the button layout is not accidental.  You'll
almost certainly break drag and drop and other protocols.



--
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Snail:         11 Cambridge Center,  Cambridge,  MA  02142
Disclaimer:    I don't know if OSF agrees with me... let's vote on it.
Amateur Radio: KC1KJ
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: pmartz@dsd.es.com (Paul Martz)
Subject: Re: FLAME, FLAME ON X!!!
Reply-To: pmartz@dsd.es.com (Paul Martz)
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 23:57:41 GMT

In article <1683@igd.fhg.de>, baumann@igd.fhg.de (Peter Baumann) writes:
> [ ... ]
> 
> Short after that, a colleague of the bad-luck guy occasionally
> remarked, "Did you know that the X windows server never releases
> memory space once acquired for image display? Each new image loaded
> makes the X server address space grow until there's no more available."
> And added, "This is a well-known bug of X". Well-known. Well...

Care to tell us in which vendor's X is this a bug? I've certainly
never heard of it before.

> [ ... ]
-- 

   -paul	pmartz@dsd.es.com
		Evans & Sutherland
From: stefans@bauv106.bauv.unibw-muenchen.de (Stefan Schwarz)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Developing of X-programs without X ?
Date: 11 Nov 92 20:45:39 GMT
Organization: Universitaet der Bundeswehr Muenchen (Germany)

agranov@techunix.technion.ac.il (Gennady Agranov) writes:


>                       Hello to everybody!

>      I have a little & simple question: I want to develop X-programs
>   (let's say Xlib-programs) on PC-AT/286 (MS-DOS) (at home). May be
>   somebody knows any library or another simulation software for this
>   case. What I mean: I write Xlib-program, link it with my dream and
>   have program !

Just do it, for free. Look for DJGPP (GNU port to DOS) and the freely
available X-development kit from Quarterdeck.
Only to have your programs running under DOS, you have to buy
DesqView/X.
Oops, forgot to say, it runs only with 80[34]86.

Stefan
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Laboratory for graphical data processing  W-8014 Neubiberg, FRG
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From: xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.dec,comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: X Under Windows NT
Summary: Fast graphics
Keywords: X Speed
Date: 5 Nov 92 15:25:37 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.x
Organization: Arete Associates, San Diego

In article <rtonoi0@zola.esd.sgi.com> msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) writes:
>
>> At NASA we run our realtime flight simulator on an SGI doing the
>> simulation models in one CPU and out the window visuals in another.
>> The entire frame runs in under 1ms,  I think you have experience
>> with the wrong machine running X.
>This example proves nothing.  The flight simulator is not an X program.
>If it was an X program there is no way you could generate frames in
>"under 1 ms".

Vendors who do fast X graphics (SGI, HP, etc.) use an extended X
driver that creates a transparent "hole" in the X server for special
graphics.  For example, the HP uses a 4 plane overlay for X on their
SRX series of graphics tops.  The remaining 24 planes are not
controlled by the X server.  When you make a graphics window on the
24 plane device using HP's Starbase graphics, a corresponding
transparent hole opens in the X server so you can see it.  In any
event, the graphics are displayed at DMA speed without intervention
by the X server.

By the by, the HP SRX blows the tails off the SGI 4D stuff, and the
SRX is now an antique!  What the HP does to a VAXStation is enough to
get the person responsible for purchase fired!

Tony Burzio
Arete Associates
San Diego, CA
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: mikeg@Ingres.COM (Mike Glendinning)
Subject: WaitForSomething(): select: errno=35
Organization: Ingres Corporation
Date: 10 Nov 92 17:00:17 GMT

With X11 Release 5, Patchlevel 17 on Sun/SunOS 4.1.2 I'm
occasionally seeing the following error on the console:

   WaitForSomething(): select: errno=35

Which is produced by module WaitFor.c in the Xsun server.
The errno is EWOULDBLOCK and it doesn't appear to cause
too much harm, although I haven't yet pinpointed the
reasons for it's occurrence.

Has anybody seen this before?

-Mike Glendinning, Ingres UK.
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From: dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu (Dwight D. Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,ba.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif,misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: X Window System bibliography
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:06:06 GMT
Reply-To: dwight@geohub.gcn.uoknor.edu
Organization: Geosciences Computing Network, Univ. of Oklahoma
Originator: usenet@kittyhawk.ecn.uoknor.edu

In article <Bx9FBs.Aoq@ora.com>, david@ora.com (David Flanagan) writes:
|>Xref: constellation comp.windows.x:13093 ba.windows.x:97 comp.windows.x.motif:5699
|>misc.books.technical:1165
|>Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,ba.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif,misc.books.technical
|>Path:
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constellation!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!
!think.com!spdcc!ora.com!david
|>From: david@ora.com (David Flanagan)
|>Subject: Re: X Window System bibliography
|>Message-ID: <Bx9FBs.Aoq@ora.com>
|>Organization: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
|>References: <1992Nov4.215357.7506@PA.dec.com>
|>Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 20:23:52 GMT
|>Lines: 108
|>
|>Ken Lee's recently posted bibliography is certainly useful, but it has
|>always annoyed me that he lumps all of the O'Reilly & Associates books
|>together, rather than treating them indivdually.  I've asked him a
|>couple of times, without success, to do me the courtesy of including my
|>name when he mentions the books I wrote (as he does for all other
|>authors), and to include the ISBN numbers of O'Reilly & Associates books
|>(as he does with all other books) so that people can order them through
|>bookstores.
|>	David Flanagan

Ken certainly provides us with a nice, voluntary, useful service. We certainly do
appreciate it and he is under no obligation to conform to anyone's preconceptions
of what form the list should take. However, maybe if we ask him nicely....how
about it Ken?
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University of Oklahoma

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These opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of OU or the GCN.
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Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:18956 comp.windows.open-look:4428
From: mikell@cactus.org (Mikell Vanderlaan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.open-look
Subject: FAQ REQUEST!
Keywords: FAQ, help
Date: 10 Nov 92 13:02:12 GMT
Organization: Capital Area Central Texas UNIX Society, Austin, Tx




Would some KIND person please EMAIL a complete copy of this
or last month's 	FAQ  

		MAIL to  :  mikell@cactus.org


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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: reid@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Bill Reid)
Subject: Re: HELP! Icons disappearing!
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:28:23 GMT

In <1992Nov3.195156.3170@riacs.edu> gt8741b@prism.gatech.edu (Chris Adams) writes:
>I am using Open Windows 2.0 on a Sun SPARCstaion IPX, with twm as my window
>manager.  Sometimes (apparently at random), when I iconify a window, the icon
>will appear and then immediately disappear.  The program does not die, however. 
>I can tell that the program (xterm or whatever) is still running by using ps. 
>What is going on, and how can I fix it?
>-- 

I have seen a similiar problem when I have saved my workspace/desktop from 
a screen with larger dimensions than the one I was using. The workspace
clients were saved with icon positions which were off-screen on the smaller
screen.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: gnb@duke.bby.com.au (Gregory N. Bond)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XR4 XDM to a remote host with local xconsole??
Date: 5 Nov 92 06:03:44 GMT
Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge & Young, Melbourne, Australia

I have a SPARC workstation running XR4; I want it to run the X server
continually, but have another machine as the XDM host (to handle the
login processes), so that it looks and acts like an X terminal.  This
works fine in an XKernel environment.

However, this workstation is also a server for a couple of odd things
and has people rlogin'ing and rsh'ing in, often causing console
messages.  These messages mess up the X server screen.  People logging
in using XDM cannot use xconsole (et al) because /dev/console is not
owned by the user on that screen (as the user actually logs into the
XDM host).

Any hints how I could handle this?  Some arcane hackery to run the X
server with the XDM-with-xconsole trick locally but still manage the
login sequence from the remote (R4) XDM host?

Greg.
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``There is Faith, Hope and Charity.  But greater than these is Banking.'' - 1492
From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Subject: Re: Want to overlay bitmap onto a pixmap
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 12:09:20 GMT

In article <RPB.92Nov3144841@brain.psy.ox.ac.uk>, rpb@psy.ox.ac.uk (Ray Bellis) writes:

> I have an application where a 3D wireframe object is rendered into a
> 1 bit deep pixmap and a shaded version is rendered into an 8 bit deep
> pixmap.  I'd like to overlay the wireframe image onto the shaded
> image, and have the wire frame appear in white on top, with the
> original black parts of the wireframe not altering the shaded image.
> I've tried using an XCopyArea with a GCFunction of GXor but that
> doesn't seem to work.

When copying from a one-bit pixmap to something deeper, you can't use
XCopyArea - you must use XCopyPlane.  But you also have to deal with
modifying only the portions of the deep pixmap you want to.  (To
simplify the language, I'll speak of "the bitmap" and "the pixmap",
meaning the 1-bit and 8-bit pixmaps, respectively.)

Assuming you've drawn the wireframe in 1s on a background of 0s in the
bitmap, and assuming that "gc" is a graphics context of depth 8 on the
same screen as the pixmap,

	set gc foreground=~0, background=0, function=GXandInverted
	XCopyPlane from bitmap to pixmap
	set gc foreground=white, function=GXor
	XCopyPlane from bitmap to pixmap

If you've got the bitmap drawn with 0s on a background of 1s, then just
read "background" for "foreground", and vice versa, in the above.
There are other possible ways of setting up the fg/bg/function values;
for example,

	first XCopyPlane: fg=0, bg=~0, function=GXorInverted
	second XCopyPlane: fg=white, function=GXand

There are some other possibilities, of course.  You can set the bitmap
as the stipple in the GC, set the fill-style to FillStippled, and call
XFillRectangle.  You can set the bitmap as the clip-mask of the GC and
call XFillRectangle.  (Both these require you to draw with 1s on a
background of 0s in the bitmap.)  There may be other possibilities, but
none occur to me at the moment.  In most cases I would guess calling
XCopyPlane twice will give you best performance, but if possible I
recommend you try them all and see.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
From: marcus@iiasa.ac.at (Marcus SCHNELL)
Subject: Re: Looking for an Interactive User Interface Builder
Organization: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 14:14:31 GMT

Jerry Whelan (guru@camelot.bradley.edu) wrote:
: 	Try SUIT from UVA.  Send mail to suit@uvacs.cs.virginia.edu
: to find out where to ftp it from.

I'm trying to find some people that have used this Interface builder.
If you have used it, could you please get in contact with me. I have a few
questions regarding SUIT, both general as well as more technical.

Any help is appreciated.

Marcus


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From: envbvs@EPB9.LBL.GOV (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.announce
Subject: TransFig 2.1.5 is available on export
Date: 10 Nov 92 21:33:12 GMT
Distribution: inet

TransFig 2.1.5 is available on export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib/transfig.2.1.5.tar.Z.
Be sure to set binary mode when transferring.

>>> It is important for users of xfig 2.1.5 to get this latest version 
>>>    of TransFig.

TransFig is a set of tools for creating TeX documents with graphics
which are portable, in the sense that they can be printed in a wide
variety of environments.

The transfig directory contains the source for the transfig command
which generates a Makefile which translates Fig code to various graphics
description languages using the fig2dev program.  In previous releases,
this command was implemented as a shell script.

The fig2dev directory contains a general program for translating from
Fig code to other graphics desciption languages.  The dev subdirectory
contains a library of output drivers used by fig2dev.

Drivers currently exist for the following graphics langauges:
(E)EPIC macros, LaTeX picture environment, PIC, PiCTeX, PostScript, and TeXtyl.
Fig2dev can be configured with a subset of these drivers


I have taken over the maintenance of TransFig from Micah Beck so please send any
bug notices, fixes, contributions etc to me at bvsmith@lbl.gov.

Brian V. Smith
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
From: kaleb@THYME.JPL.NASA.GOV (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.announce
Subject: Xaw3d deja vu
Date: 13 Nov 92 14:47:07 GMT
Distribution: inet

It seems that I've had a few (but only a few :-)) spare moments on my 
hands lately...

I know it's only been a week since I announced 0.3, but... I did some 
"conceptual" cleanup to the code in 0.3; thus creating 0.4, *AND* brought 
the R4 version into "sync" with the R5 version, so I think it warrants
another announcement.

Now the R4 version has all the bug fixes, and all the added features of 
the R5 version.  

Both versions compile cleanly on Sun SPARC, SunOS 4.1.1, w/ SunOS bundled
compiler.  Both have been tested with all the M.I.T. client applications 
distributed on the respective release tapes.

All ongoing work is done on the R5 version.  Feel free to report bugs on,
or suggest improvements to, either version, however I probably won't release
another R4 version -- switch to R5!

There are now patch files between all R5 versions.

The files are on export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12), and they are:

    ~ftp/contrib/Xaw3d/R4/Xaw3d.R4.tar.Z, 

and:

    ~ftp/contrib/Xaw3d/R5/Xaw3d-0.4.tar.Z

-- 

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Not authorized, in any way, shape, or form, to speak for anyone.