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From: dvanderr@oracle.com (Danny Vanderryn)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Compose key in MIT sample server
Date: 14 Aug 92 04:33:02 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Oracle Corporation.  Redwood City, CA

Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 01:23:36 GMT
Message-Id: <DVANDERR.92Aug13172337@hen3ry.oracle.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <1992Aug3.165952.28115@PA.dec.com> klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken
Lee) writes: 

   |> Has anybody looked at implementing a Compose Key function a'la
    OpenWindows, 
   |> or DecWindows into the sample server ? I feel this would be a
    big win in 
   |> making X multinational. Does anybody have good knowledge of
    where a person 
   |> would have too hack to implement it ?

   This is done in Xlib, not the X server.  You could do it in XLookupString()
   or use the i18n input methods in X11R5.

   -- 
   Ken Lee
   DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
   Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
   uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee


in R3 i saw some contrib stuff that actually did do it in the server,
where it was much more efficient.  i looked at putting it into my R4
server, but the server had changed so much that i couldn't figure out
how to move the changes from R3.  so i gave up and settled with the
Xlib solution (i use the Openwindows implementation).
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From: sinan@mtesol.boeing.com (Sinan Karasu)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: XGrabPointer
Date: 21 Aug 92 21:19:53 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation
From: amoss@huji.ac.il (Amos Shapira)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: need help with images
Date: 17 Aug 92 13:47:35 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs

Date: 17 Aug 92 10:12:06 GMT
Message-Id: <amoss.714046326@falafel>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

6500mack@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Michael P. Mack) writes:

>In article <BsILsB.E3D@wpi.WPI.EDU> danielg@oconnor.WPI.EDU (Daniel Matthew Gaines) writes:

>>i've got a greayscale  image made up of 16 bit pixels that i want
>>to convert to an XImage.  the problem is that when i go
>>to XPutImage i have a drawable of 8 bits (i am not able to
>>get a depth of 16)  so when i do the XCreateImage i try
>>using 8 for a depth but, as expected, the image is trashed when it appears.

>You will need to rescale your image data so that each value is in
>the range 0..255 (ie 8 bits) and convert to unsigned char.
>A simple way is to just remove the lower byte of each pixel value, but if
>the result is lousy (because of poor contrast) then you could try an approach
>like this:

[ deleted ]
>You probably won't notice any degradation due to the compression since the
>human eye can distinguish only roughly 40 grey levels anyway.

I'm absolutly NOT an Images or Xlib expert, but a basic approach which might
help enhancing your scaled images would be to do some statistics about the
freuqency each colour is used and remove the ones which are used less.

Hope this helps,
--

--Amos Shapira (Jumper Extraordiner)
C.S. System Group, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
amoss@cs.huji.ac.il
From: ldawes@uahcs2.cs.uah.edu (Lisa Dawes)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: XPM Question
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:43:34 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 09:02:48 CDT
Message-Id: <9208191402.AA26738@uahcs2.cs.uah.edu>


When using the Xpm function XpmReadFileToPixmap, does this function modify the colormap
to support the requested colors in the xpm file?  Or does one have to specify a colormap
with the appropriate colors?  Is there more documentation on xpm besides the PS file
on export?

Thanks ahead.
From: tom@bim.itc.univie.ac.at (Tom Kovar)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Hanging X11R4 server under AIX3.2.1
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:52:58 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Inst.of Theor.Chemistry,Univ.of Vienna,Austria

Date: 19 Aug 1992 18:15:55 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug19.181555.25881@newssrv.edvz.univie.ac.at>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.windows.x


  I am running AIX3.2.1 on more RS6000's (550's and 220's). In some cases
(not quite reproducible), when the Xserver exits, the console keeps hanging.
That means, that the Xserver process really exits, but the background with
traces of some of the windows stays on the screen, and the console + keyboard
are dead. The only help I know is reboot :(

  I noticed, that this happens mostly in cases where there are many living
clients, that should be killed by the exiting server. As we mostly exit
the server by exiting the window manager, I have rewritten the twm, so that
it tries to delete all of the windows when exiting. It helps much, i.e.
the hangups do not occur that often, but nevertheless...

  Is there any workaround, or does anybody know the reason why the console
hangs and what to do against it?

  Thanks in advance,
							Tom
From: cristy@eplrx7.es.dupont.com (Cristy)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: WANTED: Program to play a set of PostScript files in sequence
Date: 15 Aug 92 11:34:17 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: DuPont Central Research & Development

Date: 14 Aug 92 17:38:43 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug14.173843.10698@eplrx7.es.duPont.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps

In article <1992Aug12.232129.18293@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) writes:
>Not that I know of, primarily for the reason that you would need hardware
>of the class you list above your sig to run it.  Since PS code goes
>through the interpreter -> RIP -> output device you should be able to
>do this by writing something that stands between the RIP and the output
>device and then quickly plasters it on the display.  gs writes to the
>screen straight from the RIP, so what you are seeing is the actual 
>processing in action.   One of the machines with an optimized display
>PostScript (NeXT, RS/6000) might be a good candidate.

`animate' from contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu will do it:

  animate -colormap SharedColormap *.ps

It can handle multiple Postscript files as well as multipage Postscript.
-- 
cristy@dupont.com
From: hermann@rz-berlin.mpg.de
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: PLEASE: Unsubscribe me
Date: 21 Aug 92 14:46:59 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:37:49 +0100
Message-Id: <0095F459.F31B3140.21352@RZ-Berlin.MPG.DE>

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From: ICH211%DJUKFA11.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (Thomas Heil)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Did someone already port XView3 to RS6000/AIX?
Date: 19 Aug 92 13:02:02 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: KFA  Forschungszentrum Juelich

Date: 19 Aug 92 11:14:08 GMT
Message-Id: <92232.131408ICH211@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.windows.x

Hello!

As the subject says ...

I've retrieved the original distribution from export.lcs.mit.edu and tried
to build the library on top of X11R5 (which I successfully installed on the
RS6000 (AIX 3.2.0)). During the build process I could fix some appearing
errors due to references to diffently named include files. But now I'm stuck
in a routine that uses the pixrect stuff distributed with XView. Before
diving deeper into the source code I just wanted to ask if someone already
has done the port.

/T.H.
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From: wjg@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (William Geckle )
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: No title in original
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:54:11 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 10:55:16 EDT
Message-Id: <9208141455.AA04131@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu>



	Does anyone know of a package for general image file
format conversion.  I'm particularly interested in converting
raw grey-level images to PICT and PICS formats.

	Thanks.


						Will Geckle
						wjg@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu
From: molly@krang.vis.citri.edu.au (Mark Ollila)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: How do you create a Modeless popup Widget?
Date: 14 Aug 92 08:19:52 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia

Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 04:47:49 GMT
Message-Id: <9222714.28570@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Just a simple question.

I want to create a Widget that pops up at a click of a button,
and just appears somewhere ( users choice ). 

That it easy. But I want control ( input ) to still go to the
application window, not the popup.

So what I want is a modeless popup that does not prevent 
interaction with the rest of the application ( but when the mouse
is in the popup input goes to the popup ).

Eg Display images in popup widgets.

Thanks in advance.
Mark.

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From: sinan@mtesol.boeing.com (Sinan Karasu)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: XGrabPointer
Date: 18 Aug 92 05:00:51 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 17:34:39 PDT
Message-Id: <9208180034.AA08091@mtesol>

Not much more info can I give you, ( big program ) . Has anybody have an idea what
this means ???

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

X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  26 (X_GrabPointer)
  Value in failed request:  0x8000
  Serial number of failed request:  247
  Current serial number in output stream:  247

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From: jisyoon@sorak.kaist.ac.kr (Jinsoo Yoon)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Wanted: public domain X Record (like Record in Windows) program
Date: 17 Aug 92 22:11:19 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: KAIST in Seoul Korea

Date: 17 Aug 92 17:27:42 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug17.172742.16619@kum.kaist.ac.kr>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I'd like to know whether there is X a record program, which records keyboard
and mouse events, and plays back the saved events later.
Please post or send the information to me.

Thanks,

Jinsoo Yoon --
From: kaleb@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: How to know a client itself has been killed?
Date: 21 Aug 92 15:10:26 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 15:24:49 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug17.152449.2367@thyme.jpl.nasa.gov>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <20622@optima.cs.arizona.edu> azhao@cs.arizona.edu (Qiang Alex Zhao) writes:
>
>How can a client know that itself has been killed by the window manager?

RTFICCCM, (Read the Fine Inter-Client Communications Conventions Manual),
the section on WM_PROTOCOLS and WM_DELETE_WINDOW is your best bet.

Other alternatives include selecting SubstructureNotify and handling the
DestroyNotify event on your application top level window, or catching the
error when the client side detects that the server has closed the connection.

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From: hendrix@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Dane Hendrix)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: X-clients for Macintosh
Date: 21 Aug 92 11:26:44 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Code 1542, DTMB, Bethesda, MD

Date: 20 Aug 92 18:35:01 GMT
Message-Id: <23896@oasys.dt.navy.mil>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I'm thinking about getting X-client software for a Mac on our
network so that I can access Mac applications from my workstation.

Could people post or email their experiences?

Two products I've heard of are Xport and PlanetX.

Thanks,
 (I'll summarize to the net if requested.)


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From: pcb@gunfight.austin.ibm.com (Peter C. Bahrs)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Papers on X server porting?
Date: 14 Aug 92 06:57:45 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: *IX Open Systems, IBM Boca Raton

Date: 13 Aug 92 20:06:48 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug13.200648.28421@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Can someone post or send references to papers/books on 
X server internals/porting?

Thanks for your time,
Peter

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From: ghawkins@unix1.tcd.ie (George C. Hawkins)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: is there a nicer Grip widget than the Athena one?
Date: 18 Aug 92 04:43:21 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Trinity College, Dublin

Date: 17 Aug 92 21:34:07 GMT
Message-Id: <ghawkins.714087247@unix1.tcd.ie>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif


I am just looking for a nice Grip widget (handle for all you normal
people).  The one supplied in the Athena widget set is fairly
minimal. Is there any way for example to write a widget that can
move cleaning up after it and so avoid generating expose events
that get sent to the widget it's on top of (this is very iritating
with the Grip, it's tiny but as I move it about the DrawingArea
widget, I have below, a redraw routine has to be called for each
little tiny square it leaves behind, and I don't want to double
buffer my DrawingArea).

Thanks for your time, yours,


George.

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From: ptjahjad@us.oracle.com ("Paul Bintar Tjahjadi (Motif/X Toolkit II Development"))
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: help with Xsi/Motif 1.2 Text widget on SunOS 4.1.1...
Date: 21 Aug 92 13:54:40 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores CA
From: wsinpv@rwb.urc.tue.nl (P. Verhoeven)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: How can I make new (large) fonts?
Date: 20 Aug 92 12:52:56 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: 20 Aug 92 11:04:27 GMT
Message-Id: <wsinpv.714308667@rwb.urc.tue.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


Hello,

We are writing an editor for mathematical purposes. This editor uses multiple
(proportional) fonts. When new fonts are available they can be added in a
easy way, but we don't have a propper font editor.

So, is there a (good) font editor which can change existing fixed fonts
to proportional fonts or create new fonts and is it possible to make
a new font with more then 256 characters?
Or, is there a way to combine a number of small fonts to one large font?

If the answer to these questions is no, can someone send the structure of 
the bdf-files so we can try to write our own font editor.

We would appreciate all replys that are send to wsinpv@urc.tue.nl or to
this news group.
From: jmw1388@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: PRIVATE MESSAGE FOR HARRY MANDELL
Date: 19 Aug 92 10:57:00 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology

Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 02:57:54 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug19.025754.12066@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
Newsgroups: misc.forsale,alt.sex,comp.windows.x,rec.humor,misc.jobs.misc,alt.good.news,alt.postmodern,rec.pets.dogs,talk.politics.guns,soc.singles,alt.fan.monty-python

Poo-Poo

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	(if only I could get this damn 'alt.useless.cascade' (tm) working
	 properly!!)
From: dfegan@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (Doug Egan)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: X Development on MVS????
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:59:57 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: LESC

Date: 20 Aug 92 20:40:48 GMT
Message-Id: <dfegan.714343248@node_2204c>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


        We have been attempting to build a Motif application,
   using TCPIP on MVS/ESA... (NOT easy!) <Wiping sweat from brow>
   We have succeeded to complete a minor client with few
   capabilities...

        I would like to know if there are any OTHER products
   available, that will run with/on TCPIP in a MVS/ESA environment.

        Please Followup or reply to: egan@blkbox.com

Thanx,
      Doug
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From: boyle@gca.com (David Boyle)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Display of MS Word doc
Date: 18 Aug 92 22:58:53 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: GCA Corporation
From: george@osc.com (George Baggott)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: X Windows on Non-UNIX systems
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:17:09 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Versant Object Technology, Menlo Park, CA

Date: 17 Aug 92 17:06:44 GMT
Message-Id: <5700@osc.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.os2,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.windows.misc


There are now a number of products which implement an X server for PCs
and Macs.  They allow you to run an X windows application on a UNIX
machine and display it on a PC or Mac.  Does anyone know of a product
which allows you to develop a PC or Mac based X *client*?  Such a
product would allow you to develop a PC or Mac based X windows application
which could be displayed on a UNIX machine, PC, or Mac running an
X server.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.


George
george@osc.com
From: vandel@disuns2.epfl.ch (Jean-Marc Vandel)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Redefining icons
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:14:34 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

Date: 13 Aug 92 14:59:21 GMT
Message-Id: <VANDEL.92Aug13165921@disuns2.epfl.ch>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.x

In article <Brw6CK.6rL@newcastle.ac.uk> dph1kg@durham.ac.uk (Karl Glazebrook) writes:

   >(1) In OpenWindows the default icon for xterms and other standard X
   >applications is a diamond shape when the application doesn't specify an
   >icon. Is there anyway I can change the default icon, or better still
   >get rid of it altogether leaving just the title in a small box (as in
   >twm) ? I tend to run a lot of xterm's and the diamonds tend to clutter
   >my screen - there doesn't seem a lot of point in having them if they
   >are all identical.

I'd like to change my icons too, to differentiate emacs from xterm ...
How does olwm know the icon to give to an application ? Can it be overridden ?
Was the answer already given and if so, could you post it ?
Thanks in advance,
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From: chris@ods.com (Chris Atkins)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Extracting data from pixmaps...
Date: 18 Aug 92 20:33:38 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Optical Data Systems, Inc.

Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:53:59 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug18.155359.27184@ods.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Mark Johnston (markkj@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU) wrote:
: 
: 	Hi, I was wondering if anyone could give me some more information on
: extracting the data stored in pixmaps after they are created?  What i am doing
: is creating a pixmap with a pointer to some memory allocated with calloc().
: After creating the pixmap, I draw lots of lines, and some images into it.  I
: tried dumping the data in the original memory out to a file, but 'od' tells
: me that there is nothing but 0's in the pixmap...
: 
:     As far as I can see, there are not appropriate X calls to get the data
: out of the pixmap.  Once I have the data, I want to pass it to a routine
: that converts it to a gif.
: 
You need to use XGetImage to extract the data from the pixmap.  Pixmaps and 
windows  exist on the server side.  XGetImage transfers a specified reqion of 
the pixmap into an XImage on the client side.  Once the data is in the XImage 
structure, you can do what you wish with it in your application.  You would 
then use XPutImage to send the gif image across to a window or pixmap.

Chris Atkins
chris@ods.com
From: kapdo@src.umd.edu
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Need help how to print window image!
Date: 15 Aug 92 01:35:14 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Systems Research Center, University of Maryland, College Park

Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:39:03 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug14.213903.16443@src.umd.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


I want to know how to print window image (actually I made panel for user 
interface) to laser printer. Is there Xwindow system function for this?

please send e-mail directly to kapdo@src.umd.edu
thanks in advance.
From: oj@miki.pictel.com (Oliver Jones)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Need unobscurable window that moves obscuring windows
Date: 19 Aug 92 01:22:17 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: PictureTel Corporation

Date: 18 Aug 92 16:57:54 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Aug18.165754.771@miki.pictel.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <1992Aug14.134333.26827@linus.mitre.org>, Craig Prall (cp) writes:
> I need to have a ... banner at the top of my X
> display. Antisocial or not, it is a requirement that this window
> not be obscurable by other windows.

You'll need to use and/or modify one of the virtual-root window
managers (tvtwm, swm) and use the f.nail function to attach your
banner window to the physical root window.

You can't meet this requirement unless you specify a particular
interaction between your banner-window application and one of these
window managers.

Ollie Jones