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From: dick@ahold.nl (Dick Heijne)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: can't start windows on a machine.
Summary: ld
Date: 23 Nov 92 11:29:13 GMT
Organization: Ahold NV, Zaandam, Netherlands, EEC

In article <1992Nov13.202541.26400@ll.mit.edu>, yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich) writes:
> 	When I try to start windows it won't.  It says it can't find various
> 	libraries.  The libraries are there!  In /usr/lib.
> 
> 	What's missing?

Presumably the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and/or LD_RUN_PATH variables havn't been
setup properly ? (see ld man page)

Dick.
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From: rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: FLAME, FLAME ON X!!!
Date: 17 Nov 92 16:36:49 GMT
	<RJC.92Nov13144522@daiches.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
	<1992Nov16.162457.2923@osf.org>
Organization: Human Communication Research Center
In-reply-to: drand@spinner.osf.org's message of 16 Nov 92 16:24:57 GMT

In article <1992Nov16.162457.2923@osf.org>, Douglas S. Rand (dsr) writes:

rjc> The word is `Fragmentation'. 

dsr> There are a number of reasonable solutions to memory
dsr> fragmentation.  It really is up to a decent malloc implementation
dsr> to attempt to avoid fragmentation.

Certainly, I didn't mean to imply that the problem was unavoidable,
simply that the growing server didn't have to imply a memory leak.

As you say, the sample server is a sample, no doubt the MIT people
have much better things to work on than a tailored memory allocator.

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From: bda@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Brian Ampolsk)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: setting input focus
Keywords: set input focus XtSetKeyboardFocus XmProcessTraversal uil motif X11R4
Date: 19 Nov 92 16:18:52 GMT
Organization: Unisys Corporation, Tredyffrin, PA

I have the an application which contains windows containing numerous
text widgets.  I am using uil/C in a motif/X11R4 environment. 
Certain widgets must be edit-checked for correct
values.  In the event of invalid entry, I pop up an error dialog.
After keying "ok", and poping down the error dialog, I wish the input
focus to be in the offending widget.  I have tried using 
XmProcessTraversal which doesn't work, and XtSetKeyboardFocus is not 
clear to me.  Also, the callback resource in this case is 
XmNlosingFocusCallback.  

Any help will be appreciated.

Brian Ampolsk
From: jsrobin@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John S. Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11R5 patch level 17 Build Problem: _pclose_phigs ..	undefined
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:41:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Great Beyond

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X11R5 patch level 17 Build Problem: _pclose_phigs ..	undefined
From: jsrobin@chisti.umiacs.umd.edu
Reply-To: jsrobin@chisti.umiacs.umd.edu
Summary: 
Followup-To: 
Distribution: usa
Organization: The Great Beyond
Keywords: X11 R5 p17 undefined symbols pex

When performing a make World of X11 R5 on a Sparc 1+ running Sun OS
	4.1.1  I have encountered a problem during the linking of pex type
	clients such as auto_box, beach_ball,  etc. During the link it is
	claimed that _pclose_phigs, _ping_ws_st, etc. are undefined.

This has occurred on another system which got their sources
	independent of me.

The same sources had built successfully at patch level 12 on a  SUN 4
	with SUN O.S. 4.1.1.
Any help would be deeply appreciated.
From: snail@lsl.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X Window System bibliography
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:24:00 GMT
Organization: Laser-Scan Ltd., Cambridge

In article <1992Nov6.185105.4145@PA.dec.com>, klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee) writes:
> I wanted the bibliography to be useful to readers, not necessarily to
> publishers.  Do readers really want the O'Reilly books listed
> separately; alphabetically by author?  Or does anyone really care?
> 
> I was under the impression that most readers consider the "Definitive
> Guides" to be a set and prefer them listed together.  Note that
> O'Reilly books that are not part of this series are already listed
> separately.

List each book, by each author, from whatever publisher, SEPARATELY.
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: adrian@ora.COM (Adrian Nye)
Subject: Re: ORA News
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 01:50:37 GMT


> By the way, what does XFlushGC() do? I can't find it in the
> X manuals.

It flushes the GC cache, and it is usually needed only in extension
writing.  It is used unnecessarily in the example given,
because the GC cache is flushed automatically by any call that uses
the gc such as XDrawLine.

It's an R5 function so it's only in R5 X manuals.

*************************************************************
Adrian Nye (314) 531-1231    Editor, The X Resource
O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Publishers of Nutshell Handbooks
4466 West Pine Blvd.  20-G   St. Louis MO 63108
Internet:   adrian@ora.com    	UUCP:   uunet!ora!adrian      
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Request: xfractint
From: miguel@txiki.radiology.arizona.edu (Miguel Parra)
Date: 18 Nov 92 16:38:21 MST
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona


-- 
Hi:
    I've look in the FAQ but couldn't find it. Does anybody know where
can I find the latest version of xfractint and could that person
send me the ftp site by E-Mail.

Thankx in advance.
-------
             __/                       /    Miguel Parra
          /   /     /   /  /  _  /    /     Application Systems Analyst
   /  /  /   /  _/ /   /  /  ___/    /      University of Arizona 
__/__/__/ __/ ___ / _____/ ____/  __/       miguel@txiki.radiology.arizona.edu
              __ /                           
            ____/
From: taylor@foraker.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Eric Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XDrawPoint unreliable with some servers
Date: 20 Nov 92 17:42:11 GMT

More info is needed.  XDrawPoints calls are buffered
by X, therefore and XSync or XFlush would be needed
after all of the calls to inusre they are on the screen at
some point in your code.

Can you give a more complete example?
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: dododge@wam.umd.edu (David O. Dodge)
Subject: Pointer problems
Summary: making pointer invisible
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 07:58:23 GMT

Here's the situation:

I'm writing a program for a Sparc that requires exclusive access to the
screen, but needs to run while X is running. I need some way to keep
X from touching screen memory, because my program is doing direct writes
into the framebuffer memory. The program needs to be able to get mouse
input from the X server. I've gotten this to work fine under OpenWindows,
but it still has a slight problem with MIT X11R5.

I need to get relative pointer movements. The problem is that when
the pointer hits the edge of the root window, it stops moving, so what I've
been doing is warping the pointer to the center of the screen, then reading
a bunch of pointer events and figuring the deltas. Then I warp it back to
the center of the screen again, etc...

The thing is, when you warp the pointer, even if the pointer is invisible
(empty bitmap/pixmap), X11R5 is still trying to refresh that spot on the
screen! Needless to say, this is wreaking havoc with my program, because
the server keeps altering screen memory.

The reason this works fine under OpenWindows is because that server uses
a hardware cursor (I think).

There are two solutions I can think of:

   1) Make it so that the server will let the user move the pointer off
      the edges of the screen.

   2) Keep the server from touching the screen when I warp the pointer.

Any ideas? I've got no clue as to how to implement either of these things.
I'd prefer (1), but (2) would solve the problem. Modifying the server
is not an acceptable alternative, and I don't want this locked to the
OpenWindows server either.

Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
                                            -Dave Dodge/dododge@wam.umd.edu
From: bw@eng.cam.ac.uk (B. Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Motif Again
Date: 18 Nov 92 11:05:27 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK

Dear Colleagues,

I have sent the same message to this group two days ago.
Sorry to disturbe you again. Recently, we will buy 
Motify for our sun workstations. Please could you
tell me who I can contact with and where I can buy?

Many thanks in advance.

Bing Wang

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: korp@eid.anl.gov (Peter A. Korp)
Subject: Re: Looking for Comments on Visix's Galaxy
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:10:13 GMT

In article <1992Nov21.190307.6088@netcom.com> joey@netcom.com (Joseph P.  
Jarosz) writes:
> If I believe their marketing literature, Visix's Galaxy product is every 
> developer's dream. It claims to be a complete cross-platform development 
> environment that supports everything from Sun to MS-windows.
> 
> My question to the net is, has anybody out there used Galaxy? And if so, 
> what do you think about it.
> 
> thanx,
> joeyj@metasw.com (joey@netcom.com)

	I would also be interested in any word aobut Galaxy...

We are preparing to launch into a *large* scale project and need to make a  
decision soon, the favorite so far is ViewCenter and I have not been able
to get anyone from Visix to talk to us for 2 months..

Thanks for any info,
--
	Peter A. Korp
	Assistant Scientist
	Argonne National Laboratory
	korp@eid.anl.gov
Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:19505 comp.windows.misc:1703 comp.human-factors:2723
From: hopkins@cs.cmu.edu (Don Hopkins)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.misc,comp.human-factors
Subject: Pie Window Manager for X11 (based on "tvtwm")
Date: 24 Nov 92 02:01:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.By76z1.4xw.1
Distribution: comp
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Originator: hopkins@ECP.GARNET.CS.CMU.EDU

piewm - Pie Window Manager

PieWM is a window manager for the X window system that supports pie
menus, and is based on the "tvtwm" virtual window manger.  The labels
of a pie menu are arranged in a circle around the cursor, and the pie
menu selection is based on the direction of cursor motion between
button clicks. 

Pie menus are fast and reliable because of Fitt's Law: each of the
items corresponds to a large slice shaped target area adjacent to the
cursor, but in a different direction.  They are fast because you
don't have to move the cursor far, and the target areas are large.
They are reliable because the further away from the menu center you
move the cursor, the finer control you have over the selection.
Because the selection is based on angle, you can "mouse ahead" quickly
and reliably without looking at the screen, and the pie menus don't
even pop up if you're fast enough.  

For many tasks, pie menus are significantly faster and have lower
error rates than linear menus.  PieWM integrates pie and linear
menus so you can use them interchangeably, with top level and submenus
of either type, as appropriate. 

In addition to user definable pie menus, "piewm" supports all the
features of "tvtwm" including the virtual scrolling desktop, title
bars, shaped windows, linear menus, several forms of icon management,
user defined macro functions, click-to-type and pointer-driven
keyboard focus, and user specified key and pointer button bindings.
It also features graphical pie menu labels, and comes with a default
set of window management pie menus, designed to support an efficient
gestural style of interaction.  However, the pie menu windows aren't
circular, just rectangular.  

For more information about pie menus, read "The Design and 
Implementation of Pie Menus," by Don Hopkins, Dr. Dobb's Journal, 
Dec. 1991 user interface issue, and "A Comparative Analysis of Pie
Menu Performance," by Jack Callahan, Don Hopkins, Mark Weiser, and Ben
Shneiderman, Proc. CHI'88 conference, Washington D.C.

PieWM is available for anonymous ftp on
</ftp.uu.net:tmp/piewm.tar.Z> and
</bongo.garnet.cs.cmu.edu:pub/piewm.tar.Z>

Location (for anonymous FTP):
	Host: bongo.garnet.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.205.150)
	Dir:  /pub
	File: piewm.tar.Z
	Size: 948239 bytes

	Host: ftp.uu.net (137.39.1.9)
	Dir:  /tmp
	File: piewm.tar.Z
	Size: 948239 bytes

Could someone "in the know" please tell me how to get this into the
appropriate X contributed software collection? 

	-Don
From: pmd@crosfield.co.uk (phil davis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: load average etc. in xdm chooser list?
Keywords: xdm chooser load
Date: 16 Nov 92 13:35:37 GMT
Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.

Does anyone know if there are any patches available for the R5 xdm
chooser program that will allow it to display load average or
other information that would be helpful in choosing a machine
less loaded (:-) than the others?

Seems easy enough to do but I am sure someone has already done it.
--
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Email: pmd@crosfield.co.uk  Telephone: +44 0442 230000
From: mattb@sdd.hp.com (Matt Bonner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: changing title bar contents on the fly
Date: 23 Nov 1992 21:45:37 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hpsdlg16.sdd.hp.com
Keywords: XStoreName, XSetIconName

In article <By6HE8.CI@agps.lanl.gov>, boggs@agps.lanl.gov (Marsha topgun/ne) writes:
|> 
|> 	I am running the olwm.  Say I am running or am planning to run
|> 	some application in a window. What I want to do is change the 
|> 	title bar and icon label for the window I am currently using.  
|> 	I know how to bring up a new window with these changes.
|> 	but I want to change them for a currently existing window.
|> 	Anyone know?
|> 

Well, I've never programmed for olwm, but the Xlib calls that
I've seen used for such things are XStoreName and XSetIconName.
Give them a try and see if they do the job.  There's also 
XFetchName and XGetIconName to retrieve these resources.  I
can't quite tell if you are writing an app, or want to be able
to change the names from the command line, but you can write a 
simple program to call these functions with the names you want 
as arguments to it, or integrate it in with the program you're 
already writing.  Also, for the stock MIT xterms, there are
escape sequences you can echo to stdout that will change the 
title or icon name, but I can't seem to find them at the moment,
anyone out there know?

Regards,
Matt
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: mahan@TGV.COM (Patrick L. Mahan)
Subject: RE: X-app. over tcpip, with Motif
Organization: The Internet
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:48:17 GMT

#
#Can you tell me what to do about these error messages, logged to 
#DECW$SERVER_0_ERROR.LOG
#
#A staff user has been trying (unsuccessfully) to run an X-windows application
#called Lispworks (from Harlequin) which produces these log messages. 
#
#The X-windows application is on a Unix machine, which he accesses remotely via
#a TELNET session, from our VAXstation, which has motif installed. 
#
#He has set up his security option OK in the session manager,
#and can run X-applications such as xclock, but not this application. 
#He is using tcpip transport, not DECNET.
#
#Thanks for all your suggestions.
#
#Margaret
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#16-NOV-1992 11:56:47.4 Using extra todo packet pool...
#16-NOV-1992 11:57:08.1 %LCG-I-CONDITION_HANDLER_CALLED, the LCG condition
#handler has been called
#%LCG-I-CONTINUE_REQUESTED, DDX requests server continue despite exception
#Access violation, reason mask=01, virtual address=2D30303D, PC=0002648F,
#PSL=03C00000
#
#Unrecoverable server internal error(error code = 12) found, terminating all
#connections.
#Mapped Images...
#

I've seen this occur only with the DECwindows/Motif 1.1 Server and using
X11R5 based applications.  The only one I've been able to trace is when
using XView 3.0 againist a DECwindows server.  I this case, the XView 
application tried to InternAtom on an Atom that wasn't there and the
Server on the VAX went kabloom!.  I've also seen this happen when using
any application built using CLX as well, though I haven't gotten a 
packet trace with XScope yet.

My suggestion is to get on the horn to Digital.

Patrick L. Mahan

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: bgendler@opus.starlab.csc.COM (Bruce Gendler)
Subject: Xlib Sequence lost error
Organization: The Internet
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:23:18 GMT


Can anyone tell me what may be causing the following error
to appear:

Xlib:  sequence lost (0x50137 > 0x459ae) in reply type 0xe!

I think it has something to do with replies coming back
from the server, but I'm not sure what's causing it.

Thanks.
From: snail@lsl.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: colors & pixels..
Date: 23 Nov 92 12:31:08 GMT
Organization: Laser-Scan Ltd., Cambridge

In article <1992Nov18.235931.7527@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>, mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
> In article <1ebdh6INN66a@uwm.edu>, amit@point.cs.uwm.edu (Amit Srivastava) writes:
> 
>> I am using DirectColor setting for colormaps.  X has the rgb plane
>> which has 24 bits to store the pixel.  However it uses an unsigned
>> long to store the pixel, does X care what u do with the remaining 8
>> bits.
> 
> (I assume that's supposed to be a question, in spite of the lack of a
> question mark.)
> 
> No.  Pixel values are generally simply truncated to the correct number
> of bits, rather than range-checking.
> 
> But you can't count on those bits being there; it would be entirely
> possible to have a 32-bit DirectColor visual with, say, 11 bits of red,
> 11 of green, and 10 of blue....

The other thing to watch out for is of course, what happens in the future, 
say X11R6/X12(?). Anyone remember all those foolish people who stored data in
the upper 8 bits of the addresses on the MC68000 chip, and then apple moved to
using 68020 in their computers. A lot of code died that day. In short, even if
X doesn't give a flying f**k about those unused 8 bits, don't use then, because
one day X may start giving a damn about it ( or even a different vendor's X 
server may care) and then your program is dead as well. And I bet it won't be
an easy bug to track down, when it happens.

You have been warned.

Regards
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"para-phrasing an American's .sig"....
For the record, I did not vote for Bill Clinton
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From: david@breslau.ap.mchp.sni.de (David Smyth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: WCL templates are causing us trouble (version 2.3)
Date: 17 Nov 1992 09:15:24 GMT
Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
NNTP-Posting-Host: breslau.ap.mchp.sni.de

larry@shark.mitra.com (Larry Williamson) writes:
>
>I have not had any luck getting templates to work properly with Wcl
>versions greater than 2.1. They work okay in version 2.1.
>
>I had not been able to install version 2.2 since our applications
>needed templates and we could never workout just why they stopped
>working. I tried to install 2.3, but no luck!
>
>The Mri test using templates fails as well as our own applications.
>Everything else works as advertised.
>
>Error messages from Mri are always ...
>
>	Wcl Warning: Mri.main.table.15.wcCreate resource missing - need class or constructor
>
>Our environment is a SunOS 4.1.2, X11R5 (fix-12), Motif 1.1.3.

It works for me in my test environments, one of which is the same
as yours (Sun,R5,Mot).  The specific Mri test "PerTem" which does
the "Motif Periodic Table" using templates works on all our R5 platforms.

R5 is an absolute must of course: Wcl cannot enumerate the database
before R5.

Here is what you can try in R5 to better see just what the @&%$ is going
on: you can see all template definition resources using this library
wide resource:

*wclTraceTemplateDef:	True

You can see the resources which apply to a widget during creation
using the widget instance resources:

*foo.wcPreCreateDumpResources:		True
*foo.wcTraceTemplate:			True
*foo.wcPostTemplateDumpResources:	True

and once the widget is created, and therefore Wcl can reliably
determine the widget class (in case a constructor is used), you can
use the post-creation instance resource:

*foo.wcPostCreateDumpResources:		True

This last one shows every resource fetched by the widget instance
from the Xrm database, which are found due to a name match or due
to a widget class name match.

These resources are all covered in detail in the Wcl man page.

If there is a problem, I want to know!

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Object/X Researcher		AP 154, Carl-Wery-Str 22, Munich 83 Germany
	Research Grant provided by Esprit Investments Ltd, 
	major sponsor Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
From: bw@eng.cam.ac.uk (B. Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Motif
Date: 18 Nov 92 10:53:35 GMT
Organization: Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK

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From: brad@bradley.bradley.edu (Bradley E. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Anyone compile olvwm on SVR4?
Date: 19 Nov 92 03:55:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: bradley.1992Nov19.035501.333
Organization: Bradley University

In <1992Nov14.211824.25332@gcm.com> garyb@gcm.com (Gary Blumenstein) writes:
>If anyone has gotten olvwm to compile and run on SVR4, I'd like to 
>hear from you.  I made several attempts a while back but without success.
we have it here running on AT&T SVR4 with XFree86....
-- 
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Network & Technical Services @ Bradley University, Peoria, IL

"It's amazing how much scrap metal you get from 4 cans of beer"
From: rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Caley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: FLAME, FLAME ON X!!!
Date: 19 Nov 92 15:32:29 GMT
	<RJC.92Nov13144522@daiches.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
	<1992Nov17.195218.27789@netcom.com>
Organization: Human Communication Research Center
In-reply-to: qualtrak@netcom.com's message of 17 Nov 92 19:52:18 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.195218.27789@netcom.com>, Qual Trak (qt) writes:

qt> If the client asks the server to make him a window - the server
qt> allocates the memory, not the client.  

???

Sorry, I don't see your point. the problem mentioned _was_ server
growth, so server-memory fragmentation is one possible problem. The
clients, in the case described, were going away and being restarted,
fragmentation there is obviously a non-problem.

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