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From: eddins@bert.eecs.uic.edu (Steven L. Eddins)
Subject: SUMMARY: x3270 under OpenWindows
Summary: Use xset fp after converting the x3270 font
Keywords: x3270, openwindows, xset
Organization: EECS Dept., University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:22:32 GMT

After an earlier poster explained how to use "convertfont" to build an
OpenWindowns .fb from the font distributed with x3270, I asked:

>Can you go a step further and help us with the build?  I created a .fb
>font using convertfont.  Then I moved the font to my OW fonts
>directory and ran bldfamily (as suggested by a poster in another
>group).  However, I could not figure out the magic combination of
>Imake defines to get x3270 to find the new font.

Several people pointed out that my problem wasn't with the build, but
with my failure to use "xset fp ..." after the font conversion step.
Buzz Moschetti summed it up pretty well:

>1.  mkdir /tmp/fonts
>2.  cp 3270.bdf /tmp/fonts
>3.  cd /tmp/fonts
>4.  convertfont 3270.bdf
>5.  bldfamily
>6.  xset fp+ /tmp/fonts
> 
>If x3270 still can't find it then there is something in your .Xdefaults
>that is inhibiting, overriding, or otherwise preventing you from finding
>the new font.  If you building the 3270 font in an existing directory,
>make sure you run
>        $ xset fp rehash
>after bldfamily.

Dave Brooks also pointed out that the X Window FAQ is a good source
for font installation information.

Thanks also to Dev Joneja, Tim Rosmus, and Marc Bouron for their
responses.  (Actually, I accidentally deleted Marc Bouron's response
before I read it, so I don't know what he said.  Sorry, Marc.)

Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson)
Subject: Re: A tool for drawing GANTT/PERT charts?
Organization: Wayne State Univ.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 18:42:44 GMT

rachelw@spider.co.uk (Rachel Willmer) writes:
>Anyone know of such a beastie? Please email me.
>Rachel
>--

I would also like to have this information. Thanks!!!
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: haseka@aix.rpi.edu (Atilla A Hasekioglu)
Subject: RE:multimedia
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 20:55:42 GMT

I wrote before:

I am looking for a multimedia software that compresses images and has mailing 
options. This should be in Xwindows. I have images in many formats.
I would like to be able to change their formats and have printouts. I also
would like to be able to view them. The software I am looking for should
have all these options. I also would like to have the option to decompress and
view the image from where it is sent by mail, so this will be a two sided
software that can be used both by the sender and receiver  side.
  If anybody can help me,I will very much appreciate it.



I found the multimedia software I was looking for from a colleague, if
anybody is interested.It is very useful. It is for SUN and performs the
compression in JPEG. It has file conversion facilities in GIF, PPM,PGM,
TIFF, SUN raster, XBM, XWD, FAX G3 formats. It has also an option to
change from these formats to PS format and you can later print it.
It also mails the compressed image by email. At the other end the receiver
can make necessary format changes and view the image. My colleague says
he is very happy with this product, and it is indeed very useful.
For the interested you can find this software from :
IBS
1223 Peoples Ave.
Troy, NY 12180
Tel : 518 276 4770
Fax: 518 276 6380

 The name of the software is MultiMailv1.0.
From: rachelw@spider.co.uk (Rachel Willmer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: A tool for drawing GANTT/PERT charts?
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:56:24 GMT
Organization: Spider Systems Limited, Edinburgh, UK


Anyone know of such a beastie? Please email me.
Rachel
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rachelw@spider.co.uk                       Spider Park, Stanwell Street
+44 31 554 9424                            Edinburgh, Scotland
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson)
Subject: Re: Looking for Appointment Scheduler
Organization: Wayne State Univ.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:59:33 GMT

schwager@cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schwager) writes:


>Hello,
>I need an appointment scheduler (like Meeting Maker for the Macintosh, if
>you've ever seen that one) that works under X.  Does such a beastie exist?
>If so, is it commercial or PD?  If it's general enough to use to schedule
>rooms too instead of simply people, that would be a major bonus.  Please
>reply via email, as I don't get out much... :-)
>Thanks.
>-Mike Schwager
> schwager@cs.uiuc.edu
Could you also include me on any reply. I would love this information as well.
Thanks!!!
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: flint@hinault.cs.curtin.edu.au (Daniel Baldoni)
Subject: Re: Problems building X11R5 under SunOS 4.1.1
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 03:08:14 GMT

In <flint.714799007@marsh> flint@bike.cs.curtin.edu.au (Daniel Baldoni) writes:
>Greetings all.  Some of you may have seen an earlier plea for
>help from me - but I cancelled it (believing I had the problem
>licked - silly me!).  So, here we go again...
>
>Can anybody explain the following output from 'make World'?
>
>--- Start error report ---
> ... [deleted] ...
>--- End error report ---
>
>Looking at the link command, I believe it wants the X11 and Xt libraries.
>So, why aren't they being used?
>
>It then goes on to successfully build editres, listres and oclock but
>a similar catastrophe occurs while trying to build twm and xauth (among
>others).
>
>The tree is sitting on a SPARC (running SunOS 4.1.1) with no access to
>our earlier X11R5 installation.
>
>I've left all config files alone except site.def:
>
>>>> ... [site.def deleted] ...
>
>
>This is X11R5 patchlevel 17 (with the sunGX.uu from patch #7).
>
>Thanks for any help anybody can provide (I'm getting *REAL*
>desperate on this one).

To those people who've been send me messages telling me "you're missing
a -lXt and -lX11", thanks but I know that.  I'd really like to know
*WHY* this is happening.

I've examined the Imakefiles in the various client directories and there
is no request for the indicated libraries (but there are in other client
areas).  As this was a clean tree freshly ftp'd from export, I'm rather
confused.

Can anybody help me, please?

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From: shah@fnsony.fnal.gov (Hemant Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xterm popup menu strangeness
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:58:33 GMT
Reply-To: shah@fnalb.fnal.gov
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL

In article <1992Aug26.172950.1002@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, dbw@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.b.wood) writes:
|> On my xterm (direct from the X11R5 distribution) the popup menus don't
|> work correctly.  All I get with ctrl-leftbutton is a little box big
|> enough for the "Main" title, and nothing else.  The other two popups
|> do the same thing, except no text at all.
|> 
|> Can anyone help?
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> Dave Wood dbw@germany.att.com

I had similar problem with xterm. I turned out that I had set the size of
xterm in my .Xdefaults file 
Example:
      XTerm*geometry:                80x40

when I removed this line from my .Xdefaults file and added '-geometry' option
on command line the problem was gone.

Hope this helps :-)
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Subject: Re: Compile X11 under Solaris 2.0
Reply-To: etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon)
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 07:44:54 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.235234@nt1l.krl.com>, 
aardvark@nt1l.krl.com (Donald Koch) writes:
|> In article <9209031847.AA02731@mtesol>, 
|> sinan@Mtesol.boeing.COM (Sinan Karasu) writes:
|> [...]
|> >  I have a very simple question. I don't quite understand what is at
|> > issue here. It is my understanding that all Suns come with X11R4
|> > out of the box. So , what is the need for all this porting Stuff?
|> > Unless you need X11R5 , it seems that you should be able to 
|> > use what Sun already provides!. What gives ????
|> 
|> I believe that OpenLook comes with a Sun out of the box.  Slight difference.
|> Like no imake or xmkmf (useful for building other X goodies), an xterm that
|> some people don't like the look and feel of (or for that matter, the entire
|> OpenLook look and feel which some people don't like) and other missing programs
|> (don't ask me which, I've managed to miss using the OpenLook stuff so far).
|> -- 
|> Don Koch
|> aardvark@nt1l.krl.com

A slight error I believe, OW 3 has imake and xmkmf:

 eos95 ~ 2 > ls /usr/openwin/bin/{xmkmf,imake}
-rwxrwxr-x   1 bin        16948 Feb  5  1992 /usr/openwin/bin/imake*
-rwxrwxr-x   1 bin          698 Feb  5  1992 /usr/openwin/bin/xmkmf*
 eos95 ~ 3 > uname -a
SunOS eos95 5.0 Beta sun4c sparc

It is, I believe, broken but it is there. As to the rest I heartily
agree, along with the added performance that X11 gives.

-- 

Michael Salmon

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From: msanghvi@sol.ulowell.edu (Mehul Sanghvi)
Subject: Re: xrn 6.17 domain problem
Reply-To: msanghvi@cs.ulowell.edu
Organization: UMass-Lowell CS Dept.
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 22:53:10 GMT



those that sent me the info on the xrn 6.17 domain problem i had, thanks a lot

i was building xrn for myself and did not know about the config.h file 
the version the rest of the Univ. uses is the Motif version and i like the 
Athena version better :)

peace

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blowing first.
From: curt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Curt Kersey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problem with XView and X11R5
Date: 26 Aug 92 20:17:52 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens


 hello-

 i am currently installing the xview3 package from the user contributed
 software for X11R5.  i got it all to compile (finally), but now the
 cmdtool and textedit programs do not work.  i have several compilation
 errors while building the package that i suspect may be causing some
 problems. the problems i encountered were:

	(1) in the file xview3/lib/libxview/panel/p_view.c

		in line 3 there were to " next to each other in the
		sccs id line.  i just took one of them out, and it
		compiled fine.  

		no big deal.

	(2) in the file xview3/lib/libxview/scrollbar/sb_compat.c

		in line 69 there was a type conflict with the attr
		variable.  the function prototype had it as type
		Scrollbar_attr and the function itself had it as
		Attr_attr.  so i changed it to Scrollbar_attr, and
		it compiled with no more errors.

		i am not real sure about this part.

	(3) in the file xview3/lib/libxview/textsw/txt_edit.c

		in line 524 there was a type conflict with the
		variable buf_len.  the function prototype had it
		as an int and the function header had it as a 
  		long int.  so i changed it to int, and it seemed 
		to compile with no problems.

		i am not too worried about this either.

  for more background info:
	o using X11R5 with the Xkernel package from ctr.columbia.edu to make
	  sun 3/50s X terminals.
	o using the contributed xview3 software from export.lcs.mit.edu for
	  X11R5
	o using the gcc compiler version 1.39 to build xview3

  the problem is that when i try to start up a cmdtool or textedit it gives
  me a 'Bus error (core dumped)', and i dont know why.  any help is greatly
  appreciated.

 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
  Curt Kersey      email: curt@pollux.cs.uga.edu       phone: (706) 542-3445
 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
From: ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X interface to tar?
Date: 3 Sep 92 22:41:06 GMT
Organization: NC Microproducts, Inc.

Has anybody seen an Xtool that frontends tar?

That's all....thanks.


Lance
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From: greg@athena.cs.uga.edu (Greg Whitlock)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xarchie/xgopher compiling problems
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:59:16 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

I'm trying to compile xarchie and xgopher on a Sun4 (w/4.1.1) and both
packages compile fine until the following error:

Undefined
_dlsym
_dlopen
_dlclose

I know something is amiss and was curious if anyone else has experienced
this problem.  We've just gotten X running so it could easily be something
is misplaced but I don't know what.

I would appreciate any suggestions.  Thanks.

-greg
 (greg@athena.cs.uga.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: s8923098@macnab.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Josef WIDJAJA)
Subject: Re: HELP! XSetWindowAttributes and XSetWMHints
Organization: Macquarie University, School of Mathematics, Physics, Computing and Electronics
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 08:41:14 GMT

In article <1992Sep4.015632.947@mailhost.ocs.mq.edu.au> s8923098@macnab.mqcs.mq.oz.au (Josef WIDJAJA) writes:
|
|I am a novice trying to do some simple X Window programming.
|
|I am trying to put an image (using XPutImage) or a drawing
|(eg. using XFillRectangle) into a Window. So far, the image/
|drawing can be displayed if I set the override_redirect field
|in the XSetWindowAttributes structure for my window to True.
|When this is set to True, however, the Window Manager cannot
|put decorations and borders around that window. 
|
|When I set the override_redirect to False, which means that the 
|Window Manager can now sorround the window with borders and 
|decorations, the image/drawing is not displayed.
|

I think I now know why. When the override_redirect is set to
False, the Window Manager redraws the window generating
an Expose event. Upon receving this event, the image has to be
redrawn.



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 _________Josef Widjaja____________  
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|__________________________________| 
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: bobmcg@castle.ed.ac.UK (Bob McGonigle)
Subject: European X User Group Conference: Final Announcement
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 13:20:26 GMT


EUROPEAN X USER GROUP CONFERENCE 
FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT 

24-25 September 1992

Brunel University, Uxbridge, Great Britain
  (5 minutes from Heathrow)

The conference this year comprises the conference itself, a choice of
optional tutorials, a vendor exhibition and demonstrations.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

The Keynote Speaker this year is Bob Scheifler from MIT, whose subject
will be "Hands off X".

The programme is very varied this year.  

  There are papers covering the technical aspects such as "Developing
  robust multi-user Xt applications" from Oliver Jones of PictureTel
  Enginerring and "GUI builders and object-oriented development" from Doug
  Young of Silicon Graphics.  

  Graphics is also covered this year with papers from Simon Keynon of ICL,
  Val Schmidt of UNIRAS, and Duncan Stewart of the VI corporation.  

  Usage of X is also prominent with papers covering: management in a large
  distributed environment; aspects of group working and group
  applications; and destop conferencing and desktop metaphors. 

The above covers a small highlighted selection of over 30 papers that
will be presented.

An indication of how important X is in our lives these days, is given in
the title of Werner Klauser's paper - "My X Enviroment, My Castle".

TUTORIALS

The tutorials will be held on the morning of Thursday 24th September.
Four subject areas are offered:

X Window System Administration,
PEX programming,
Starting off with X, and
Debugging X Windows programs.

VENDOR EXHIBITION

The exhibition will be the only one dedicated to X and exhibitors will
be showing products and services offered to the X community. Some of
those exhibiting are BEAM, ICL, IST, Hydra Design, NCD, Tektronix,
UNIRAS and the VI corporation.

DEMONSTRATIONS

There will also be demonstrations by developers working within the X
environment, plus video presentations of various applications.

COST

The conference fee is 250 pounds.
Price includes refreshments and lunch, plus the conference dinner on the
Thursday evening.

Optional tutorial fee is 50 pounds.
Choose one of the above four subject areas.

Accommodation - 27.50 pounds per person per night.
Bed and Breakfast in en-suite rooms. Available Wed 23rd, Thur 24th and
Fri 25th September.

EXHIBITION STANDS

If you would like to exhibit your organisation's
products/services/research developments, please contact the secretariat.

TO BOOK

Registration forms and further information are available from:

  EXUG Secretariat
  PO Box 458
  Cambridge 
  CB4 4AA
  Great Britain

  Tel: +44 (0) 223 426534
  fax: +44 (0) 223 420251




Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
From: allyn@halcyon.com (mark allyn)
Subject: Public domain TCP/IP and X Window Server software for ibmpc
Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:05:30 GMT

Hello

We have a bunch of 286 and 386 PC's in our group that are sitting
around doing nothing. Management wants to put them to use in a
situation where they run X windows to run applications on Unix
machines (Sun's, Sequents, etc). These Unix machines are powerfull enough
to keep several X based applications running. The mode of X window stuff
that we have is open look.

Because my management is tight on spending money (you must go up to a 
senior VP to get approval to event get a $200 piece of software) I
am wondering if there is some public domain stuff out there available
via anonymous ftp (we do have C compilers and engineering time to use to
compile/hack something together). 

I believe we need two things; one, a decent tcp/ip package including
drivers for 3Com and Ungermann Bass (3Com is our primary choice; the
Ungerman Bass are only a few); and a version of X window server
software that will work with VGA graphics. Even if you know of stuff
that does not work perfectly, and it is in source, we would still be
interested because I can allways find time between idiotic managment
meetings and other nausium to hack at it until it works enough to
fill our requirements.

Thanks!

Mark Allyn
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: markb@wagner.cbs.umn.edu (Mark Berres)
Subject: Problems with X11R5 compiling under gcc-2.2.2
Organization: College of Biological Sciences, U of MN
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:42:26 GMT

Has anyone succeeded in compiling X11R5 using gcc-2.2.2 on a sun4c (IPX)?
Everything works fine until near the completion of the build with the files:

			handler.c
			wtree.c
			gram.c

A variety of warnings occur, apparently with enough punch to warrent the
failure of the build. We have X11R4 compiled under gcc2.2 and it works fine.
All relevant fixes have been applied. Any suggestions?

Thanks.

markb
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: sayegh@CVAX.IPFW.INDIANA.EDU
Subject: mail
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 21:34:42 GMT

Arabic language fonts for X Window

Do Arabic language fonts exist for XR11.4 or XR11.5?  Are they public domain or
commerically available?  Where might we find them in Athena distribution or on
the Internet?

If we can get these fonts by 17:00 (5:00pm) 01sep1992, these fonts would be 
_most_ beneficial.  If we obtain these fonts after 17:00 EST 01sep1992, they
would be of less immediate usefulness, but would still be interesting for future
use.  Therefore time is of the essence.  Thanks for your time and information. 

                                 ---- Samir Sayegh
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: yooho@ursula.ic.cmc.ca (Yoo Ho Cho)
Subject: X on serial graphics terminals
Organization: Canadian Microelectronics Corporation
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:51:46 GMT


Hello,

Has anyone out there set up X to run on an AED 767 ? Or on any other
serial graphics terminal ?

Yoo Ho Cho
From: holland@weber.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Holland)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Use of XtAppAddInput
Date: 28 Aug 92 22:18:02 GMT
Organization: Martin Marietta Astronautics, Denver

Have a question concerning the use of XtAppAddInput with X11R4 -Motif using C++.
The problem is with the Condition (3rd) variable which defines the read/write/
or exception condition mask. The Xt book defines condition to be of type 
XtPointer, however XtInputReadMask and XtInputWriteMask are longs in 
Intrinsics.h. If I pass XtAppAddInput XtInputReadMask as the condition variable
the compilier complains that an XtPointer is expected. I tried loading the
XtInputReadMask into a locally declared XtPointer variable. This will compile
but when run XtAppAddInput complains that an invalid condition was passed in.

Passing XtInputReadMask directly into the call is the way the examples are done`
in the O'Reilly book and Young's book. Any ideas?

Thanks :-))

Rick Holland MMC
holland@glass.den.mmc.com
From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XDM configuration question
Date: 1 Sep 92 16:26:08 GMT
Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science


    Can anybody tell me whether the xdm-config file gets passed
    through cpp or not.  In particular, I would like to make parts of
    it conditional on the hostname of the current system.

The short answer is no, it is not run through cpp.  The long answer is
that this would not be useful anyway.  You should not customize xdm's
behavior based on the host where it is running; that is irrelevant to
the user.  Instead, customize for the display being served.

There are two ways to do this customization.  First, the xdm resources
that relate to a specific display include the display name in the
resource name, so you can ask for different behavior on different
displays.

Second, the resources file used by the parts of xdm that display
windows is loaded by xrdb, so it is run through cpp.  The sample
resource file in the R5 distribution uses this, for example, to
display the name of the host you are logging in to in the Login
window.

See xdm(1) for details.

 < Stephen
   MIT X Consortium
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x