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From: charette@cheetah.det.dec.com (Mark Charette)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Where is Ken Olsen's internet address??
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:22:41 GMT
Reply-To: charette@cheetah.det.dec.com (Mark Charette)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <2915@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com>, hwrvo@lhdsy1.chevron.com (W.R. Volz) writes:
|>
|>Does anyone have the internet address of Ken Olsen so I can
|>send him a note. I am having trouble getting things fixed in
|>digital and I think he might want to know. I've have had 
|>motif problems with their version since June of last year
|>and it hasn't been fixed yet. Their latest still had the
|>problems. This is no joke. How can I send him a note?

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,
which is 1.1.1. Yes, I know it's way out of date, but it's a heck of a lot
better. If you're already using 1.1.1, you'll have to wait longer for a new
release or switch to the OSF/1 release instead of Ultrix.

--
Mark Charette                |Yes, I do speak for my employer. Really. Often.
Fisher Engineering Systems   |Digital Equipment Corporation is NOT my employer,
charette@cheetah.det.dec.com |so don't blame them. I just consult there.
From: Kotiel@cediag.bull.fr (Kotiel.Assoulin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: HELP NEEDED: FRENCH AT-KEYBOARD AND X11R4
Date: 6 Apr 92 06:25:44 GMT
Distribution: comp.windows.x
Organization: Cediag Bull S.A., Louveciennes, France


I would like to make a french PC-AT keyboard work with X11R4 on my workstation.
I guess it requires a new keysyms mapping. There must be one such 
file in the public domain.

Thank you for help.


Kotiel ASSOULINE			e-mail: kotiel@frlv.bull.fr
BULL CEDIAG                             phone (33) 1 39-02-58-78	
68, Route de Versailles		  	Fax:  (33) 1 39-02-47-95
78430 Louveciennes, FRANCE
From: karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl A. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Why won't xrn6-17 run under R5 on Sun?
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:02:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: thuja.1992Apr16.120246
Reply-To: karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl A. Anderson)
Organization: NASA/GSFC code 923

I've been using xrn6-11 under OpenWindows v. 2 and v. 3.  I've been
reasonably happy with it, but wanted to progress to the latest versions
of X11 and xrn.  Well, I finally managed to get R5 built and installed
on my SPARCstation 2 under OS 4.1.2.  I then built xrn6-17 without
errors, but when I try to run it I get:

karl@thuja% pwd
/usr/local/src/xrn6-17
karl@thuja% ./xrn
xrn: X Toolkit Error: Cannot perform malloc
xrn: X Toolkit Error: Cannot perform malloc

I've tried building both R5 and xrn with gcc2.1, and with Sun cc.  The
result is the same - no errors on build, but xrn won't run.  Does
anybody have a fix/work-around for me?  TIA.
--
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NASA/GSFC code 920.2 (STX)	| voice: (301) 286-3815
Greenbelt, MD 20771		| #include "std_disclaimer"
From: kevin@drogges.tti.com (Kevin Carothers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xwd format question
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:03:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: ttidca.34332
Organization: Transaction Technology, Inc.


I am writing a program that displays a B+W image and performs a system call to
xwd to save the image into an xwd format file. The problem is that , without 
looking at the code to xwd/xwud that closely, it looks like xwd is always
writing out a dump file that is 8 bitplanes deep, even if the display is 1-bit deep.

This application  needs to write possibly hundreds of xwd files, and am wondering 
(before I go too much deeper :) if it would be worth my time to "compress"  the 
bits produced by my program. ie; if the XImage area store in the xwd file (from 
the xwd program) looked something like:

  bytes:    00 01  00 01  00 01   .....

can I write my application to store the XImage as:
   bits:    010101  ....

given that the xwd header is set up right (header.bits_per_pixel == 1 && 
	header.pixmap_depth == 1)??

Or do I just have to live with the 7 extra (useless) color-planes?

Thank you for any information.
--
Kevin Carothers   {psivax,philabs,retix,quad1}!ttidca!kevin
From: kirillt@numbat.pad.otc.com.au (Kirill Tatarinov)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Augmenting the known widget set of UIL
Date: 15 Apr 92 00:12:14 GMT
Reply-To: kirillt@numbat.pad.otc.com.au (Kirill Tatarinov)

In article <kuk6oiINNkps@news.bbn.com>, rnewman@bbn.com (Ron Newman) writes:
|> In article <13APR199215481717@addvax.llnl.gov>, kettering@addvax.llnl.gov (Brett 'Volleyball Is My Game' Kettering) writes:
|>  
|> |> 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?
|> 
|> If you need to do this, this is an excellent reason to stop using 
|> UIL and use Wcl (Widget Creation Language) instead.   Adding new
|> widgets to Wcl is trivial.
|> 

But if you still want to use UIL (I don not have anything against Wcl),
you need the OSF's original kit of 1.1.2 or later. It comes with the 
Widget Meta Language. Using this tool you can build your own UIL 
compiler supporting your own widget. Besides, you will have to write
your own analog of MrmInitialize. All that is not an easy procedure,
but we have done it once.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Subject: Re: XDM nightmare
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 16:14:17 GMT

In article <etstjan.703410685@dutepp13> JPMvOorschot@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Jan van Oorschot) writes:
>Hi,
>
>We are running a cluster of SUN's with sunos 4.1.2 (SOLARIS) combined
>with the X11R5 patch level 9. The SUN's are on the Campus ethernet
>connected to The Internet.
>
>     - start XDM's on most sun's. Everything works fine, lots of
>       people can start up X servers.

People run X servers?  Maybe you mean they can log in and run X applications?

>     - Let it run for a few hours/ a day.
>     - All XDM daemon have crashed, core files in the root directories
>       of the sun's that (used to) run XDM daemons.
>     - kill all bungling X servers,  restart XDM daemons, everything 
>       will run OK for a few hours.
>     

We run a similar setup; the exceptions being we're running SunOS 4.1.1
and X11R5 patch 10.

Are you certain the core files are from xdm?  I've never seen xdm core
dump.  For a long time we would consistently get core files from Xsun;
Sun's keyboard driver takes a long time to reset, xdm restarts Xsun
faster than the keyboard can reset, the ioctl to get the keyboard type
returns a -1, and the server "aborts", generating a core file.

The Xsun.multi-screen.R5.tar.Z file on export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib
fixes that problem in addition to supporting multiple screens.  Whether
you choose to build that full server or not, you can find the solution
to the Xsun core dumps in sunKbd.c in that tar file.

-- 

Kaleb Keithley                               kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov

Not authorized, in any way, shape, or form, to speak for anyone.
From: diane@drao.nrc.ca (Diane Parchomchuk)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: ESC seq. to change window title
Date: 15 Apr 92 04:33:00 GMT
Organization: The Internet

I want to be able to change the name of my window and the associated icon.  I
have tried the key sequences in  the FAQ #30 (these are the same as those
suggested in the Xterm Control Sequences document on our system).  It did not
work for me.  I also tried the xtitle script submitted on the net, no go.

As a non-unix person in a unix world I have a lot to learn BUT when I hit a key
labelled ESC (F11) on my keyboard and I don't get the results I expect, well...

Anyhow I am working on an NCD Xterminal, running off an IBM R-6000 system, an
out of the box Xterm (I think), and the window manager is Motif.

I tried to figure out the key cap entries by running xmodmap and  
	keycode 10 = Escape
is the definition I found.

I tried other xterm control sequences that are listed in the Xterm Control
Sequences document and they don't work either,  is there a method of finding
out which key is actually ESC ? or are these escape sequences to the X server
disabled?

Does this make sense to anyone??

I would *really* like to be able to label my windows and icons on the fly.  I
can plunk in a parameter to xterm but I am often on the same machine or
username many times and I would like each one to be identifiable especially
when iconified.

BTW: THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO RESPONDED TO MY XSERVER QUESTION - IT HELPED!

Thanks
Diane Parchomchuk
From: mef@remus.rutgers.edu (Marc E. Fiuczynski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.sequent
Subject: xdbx for sequent symmetry
Date: 15 Apr 92 05:54:38 GMT
Reply-To: mef@klinzhai.rutgers.edu
Followup-To: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.sequent
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Hi, simply question.  Has anyone been able to get xdbx compiled on a
sequent symmetry.  I got it compiled, but it doesn't seem to work
properly with the dbx'er that's available on the sequent.  

One of the problems was that the sequent doesn't support the termio
structure, without it I can't turn of the mapping of NL to CR-NL on
output (i.e. Termio.c_oflag &= ~ONLCR; ioctl(foo, TCSETA, &Termio)).
BTW, this is happening in calldbx.c in calldbx(...,...).

If anyone has been able to get around this and has xdbx working on 
the sequent please let me know.

Thanks,

Marc
-- 
______________________________________________________________________________
Marc E. Fiuczynski	\\  school: (908) 878-2088
mef@remus.rutgers.edu  	//  UUCP: {backbone}!rutgers!remus.rutgers.edu!mef
From: gb@uniplex.co.uk (Graham Beint)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Ada multitasking with X-windows
Date: 9 Apr 92 03:46:24 GMT
Reply-To: gb@uniplex.UUCP (Graham Beint)
Organization: Uniplex Limited, Redwood House, Hemel Hempstead

In article <6APR199216012569@addvax.llnl.gov> kettering@addvax.llnl.gov (Brett 'Volleyball Is My Game' Kettering) writes:

...

>with DEC's binding.  I know that if you call XNextEvent or XtAppMainLoop with
>DEC`s binding your process delays forever (well until another X event comes
>along) and does not allow the Ada RTS to take over and schedule another task
>because the process never gets back on the CPU.

...

Presumably an XtWorkProc to interface to the ADA RTS should be part of the
functionality of XtNextEvent in the binding, if not then presumably
the binding is flawed.

-------------

Where do you draw the line.

Surely a binding is the definition of the call interface with as little
layering as is required to provide the functionality defined for the
library in the idiom of the calling language.

If the languages are equivalent in the sense that one can transparently
mix the two then no layering is required at all.

If the only difference is the call interface then a simple interface layer
will suffice.

It is possible that an implementation in the called language cannot be 
described accurately in the calling language and is therefore unusable.
E.g. Algol 60's pass by reference and C's pass address by value are totally
different and neither language can describe the functionality of the other.

Of course this may not matter since it is the binding layer that is to be
described. However the binding must provide the full functionality defined
for the library, if it cannot do that without an unacceptable burden of
code or performance it may have to resort to partial or even full
re-implementation of the library concerned.  This is still a binding.

Contrariwise malloc tends to have two implementations and one binding 
in C. The newer mallopt package and the traditional one. 
Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:10124 comp.unix.sysv386:8753
From: dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Why don't my unix:0 windows die?
Date: 17 Apr 92 00:49:38 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.x
Organization: AT&T

Configuration: X11R5 pl10 (X386 1.2), SVR4.0.3

Does anyone know why clients that don't speak WM_DELETE_WINDOW refuse to
die when the window manager deletes the window?  This only occurs if I
use ':0' or 'unix:0' for the display.  If I use the network name, the
client application will die.

I've discovered that if I patch in the client-side LOCALCONN stuff from
X11R4, clients will exit properly if the display is ':0', but not 'unix:0'.

Is there a workaround for this problem, other than modifying clients to
handle WM_DELETE_WINDOW?  I'd like to NOT use client-side LOCALCONN, if I
can avoid it.  Keeping this around will just perpetuate incompatibilities.


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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: rg@msel.unh.edu (Roger Gonzalez)
Subject: help!  gnu finger 1.0b won't run with X11 support!
Organization: UNH Marine Systems Engineering Lab
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 16:19:04 GMT


When I try to start up the main server, it dumps out with a message like:

ld.so: __XtInherit not found

or something like that.  I'm running X11R5 on a SunOS 4.1.1 sparc.

-Roger
--
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting
 than the question of whether a submarine can swim" - Edsger W. Dijkstra 

Roger Gonzalez   -  rg@msel.unh.edu
Division of Bit Banging and Reluctant Robotics
UNH Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory, Durham, NH  03824-3525
(603) 862-4600 -4399 (fax)
From: paetsch@sc.zib-berlin.de (Paetsch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xaw-Dialog
Date: 14 Apr 92 09:21:04 GMT
Organization: The Internet

Hi,

is there anybody who can tell me how I can call a function whenever the
returnkey is pressed within a dialog widget window. I had some tries with
accelerators an translations, but it doesn't work. Any hints are appreciated.
I am not on this list, I will read the answers through the comp.windows.x
newsgroup or reply directly to me.


Many Thanks in advance

Olaf Paetsch                                paetsch@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE
Graphics Department
Konrad Zuse-Zentrum fuer Informationstechnik Berlin 
(Germany)
From: smcdow@mojo.ots.utexas.edu (Stuart McDow)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: aaron for X?
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:06:01 GMT


Hello, all - 
	Does anyone know about the 'art' generation software
called aaron? Is it public domain? Has it been ported to X?
Where can I get source? Sorry if this subject has come up
before - I don't have time to read 6,114 articles.
Thanks in advance. Please MAIL responses to
smcdow@utexas.edu.

--
 smcdow@utexas.edu    | 1. Theatre is Life.         |      Less Jesus       |
    I disclaim,       | 2. Film is Art.             |     More Madonna      |
  therefore I am.     | 3. television is furniture. |    **************     |
           There is no such thing as software `engineering'.

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    I disclaim,       | 2. Film is Art.             |     More Madonna      |
  therefore I am.     | 3. television is furniture. |    **************     |
           There is no such thing as software `engineering'.
From: wxs@po.CWRU.Edu (W.charles Simciak)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X Editors
Date: 12 Apr 92 00:47:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: usenet.1992Apr12.004737.25591
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)


Can anyone suggest some Public Domain/Shareware/ etc. editors for X
Windows.. in particular one that makes use of the graphical interface
and is not just another unix editor popped into a window..(like Emacs, VI)
please mail me the name, a brief description, and location of where
I can obtain the software package...

thanx

-- 
   Chuck Simciak    ! "Punctuation is a loin cloth, covering
  wxs@po.CWRU.edu   !    the private parts of literature."
   WRUW 91.1 FM     !                            -Picasso
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: DBOHDAL@jaguar.ess.harris.COM
Subject: Communication.
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 15:17:00 GMT


Here's my problem:  I have an X-Windows application process running and
a non-X communications process running.  When a message is received by my
comm process, I want to interrupt the X-Windows application and update
a status window indicating that a message has arrived.  What is a good
way to do this?  Do I have to make my comm process an X-Windows process
in order to to successfully communicate?  I'm on a VAXstation 3100 using
VMS and Motif 1.1.

Thanks for any help you can provide,
Debbie
From: rodgers@engcon.marshall.ltv.com (KMRODGERS)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Can't set text widget resources in xgrabsc
Date: 13 Apr 92 16:32:12 GMT
Reply-To: rodgers@engcon.UUCP (KMRODGERS)
Organization: LTV MEG, Dallas, TX


I have just compiles xgrabsc on two machines (a DECstation and a Sun Sparc 2)
and am trying to set the default print command for xgrab (the graphical front
end to xgrabsc) in the XGrab resource file.  The line in the resource file
should be:

     *.printerText.string: lpr -Pmy_printer -other_options

but xgrab will not recognize this resource setting.  I know that xgrab is
reading the resource file because I can change the labels via settings in the
XGrab resource file, but the Ascii Text widgets do not pay attention to the
edit box text in the resource file.  Am I using the right resource? Any
ideas?  Feel free to post or email responses (note the email address below,
our posting software tends to generate incorrect Reply-To: lines).

Thanks in advance . . .
-- 
Kevin Rodgers  Chance Vought Aircraft (now LTV Aerospace, soon to be ???)
rodgers%engcon@uunet.uu.net
"Convictions cause convicts." --- Malaclypse the Younger, Pricipia Discordia
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From: rogers@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Bob Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X Terminal?
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:05:01 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.

I work for a small software company.  Currently we have on SPARCstation IPX
and one IPC.  The IPX doubles as a file server.  It has been suggested that we
get an X terminal for demos of our product (which is an X application - the
demos have to look good).  Is an X terminal the best, most cost-effective way
to go?  Or should we buy a diskless workstation?  Perhaps buy X server
software for our Macs?  If the X terminal is a good idea, what brands should
we consider and what prices can we expect to pay?
 
Any advice or info is greatly appreciated -- please reply via email, thanks.

UUCP: {crash, kksys, petrus, quest}!orbit!pnet51!rogers
ARPA: crash!orbit!pnet51!rogers@nosc.mil
INET: rogers@pnet51.orb.mn.org
GEnie: R.C.ROGERS
From: smith@compound.se (Bj|rn Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Xfig and autoraise
Date: 10 Apr 92 07:47:16 GMT
Organization: Compound Systems

Is there any way to turn off the AutoRaise functionality for
subwindows in an application (such as file selection window
in xfig) ?

I am running all application such as xfig, xtroff, xterm in
AutoRaise mode specified in .twmrc.

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Bj|rn Smith	Compound Systems, phone +46 8 7923689
UUCP:	 	{uunet,mcsun}!seunet!comsys!smith
Internet:	smith@compound.se
From: welsh@epcc.ed.ac.uk (E Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Anything better than xwd?
Date: 9 Apr 92 15:40:15 GMT
Organization: Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre

xwd isn't quite what I need. I have a window which is bigger than the size
of the screen and so xwd only dumps the visible part. Is it possible to
dump the whole window somehow?

-- 
 _____________________________________________________________________
/ Evan Welsh                                          <evan@ed.ac.uk> \
\ Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre               (+44 31 650 5960) /
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: nieh@surya.cadence.com (Ko-Haw Nieh)
Subject: Re: Looking for a prompt utility
Reply-To: nieh@cadence.com (Ko-Haw Nieh)
Organization: Cadence Design Systems, San Jose CA. 
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1992 03:58:03 GMT


>>>I am on the lookout for a utility much like xmessage, only I need to have the
>>>user be able to enter some text, which is to be returned to the script
>>>calling it. It is to be used as a prompt for e.g. a filename.

How about xprompt.

--
Ko-Haw Nieh
Cadence Design System Inc.
2820 Orchard Parkway San Jose, CA. 95134
Tele: 408-944-6821  E-mail: nieh@cadence.com Fax: 408-943-1899



Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: peter@modtor.uucp (Peter Ziobrzynski)
Subject: Re: SpeedUp 1.1.1
Organization: Modular Research
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 00:45:44 GMT

Well, I ftpd the stuff and tried in on my ISC 2.2.1 and all I got is 
assembler complaints. None of the *.s files in mit/server/ddx/x386/vga
would compile.  Make run produces:

        rm -f gBitBlt.o
        /lib/cpp -DISC -DSYSV -DSYSV386 gBitBlt.s >gBitBlt.i
        as -o gBitBlt.o gBitBlt.i
Assembler: gBitBlt.s
        aline 56        : Illegal mnemonic
        aline 56        : syntax error
        aline 58        : Illegal mnemonic
        aline 58        : syntax error
	...

Any ideas?
-- 
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1850 Rathburn Rd. E #1611, Mississauga, Ont. L4W 2X9, Canada
tel. +1 (416) {home:625-1684, work:496-8510, fax:496-8524}
From: mac@visionware.co.uk (Simon McGowan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Xvision under Windows 3.1
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:14:55 GMT
Organization: VisionWare Ltd., Leeds, UK

james@racerx.UUCP (James Montebello) writes:

>I'm told that Xvision 3.0 (which is all we have here) won't work under
>Windows 3.1. Is this true? Will Xvision 4.0 work? Is there a later
>version than 4.0 out, yet?

XVision 4.O will work with Microsoft Windows 3.1. I can't see any reason why
XVision 3.O shouldn't work with Windows 3.1 either. However XVision 3.O
is very old and as a consequence of this has not been tested with Windows 3.1.

VisionWare cannot guarantee that XVision 3.O will function fully with 
Windows 3.1, because only the current and one previous version of XVision
are supported.

If you are planning to use Windows 3.1 then I would recommend that you upgrade
to XVision 4.O.


Simon McGowan.
VisionWare Technical Support.
[mac@visionware.co.uk].