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From: steve@ecf.toronto.edu (Steve Kotsopoulos)
Subject: xvt 1.0 under IRIX 4.0.5
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:10:21 GMT

I want to install xvt 1.0 (a replacement for xterm) on an SGI system.
It won't compile out-of-the-box, so before I try fixing it myself,
I thought I should ask if anyone else has already patched it.

If so, could you please post or email the patches?

Note: It needs to be modified to use SGI's _getpty() call.

Thanks
-- 
Steve Kotsopoulos                   mail:   steve@ecf.toronto.edu
Systems Analyst                     bitnet: steve@ecf.UTORONTO.BITNET
Engineering Computing Facility      uucp:   uunet!utai!ecf!steve
University of Toronto               phone:  (416) 978-5898
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.ms,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
From: olds@helix.nih.gov (James Olds)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and X under MS Windows 3.1?
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 23:21:00 GMT

In article <+0d26sf@rpi.edu> act@sun.ipl.rpi.edu (just another programmer) writes:
>I am very curious about people's experiences running TCP/IP software
>under Win 3.1.  I am contemplating putting an Xserver onto a machine running 
>Win 3.1 and connecting it to a Unix host to run Unix apps over the net.
>
>So  what kind of experiences have people had and/or recommendations.  I've only
>just begun tis so if there is any recommended reading that would also be
>appreciated.
>

  
  I am running Integrated Inference's Machine's X11AT Xserver and it
  runs very well under both Win 3.0 and 3.1. My one complaint is that
  the icons for the X apps when Windoze is running as the manager (as
  opposed to say mwm or twm) are very boring and non-informational.
  The software is running on a 386/25 with 9MB Ram, 100 MB HD and
  a VGA card. The network card is a 3com 3c502 running PC/TCP as
  a network kernel. Hope that helps.>


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* James L. Olds Ph.D.                 Neural Systems Section               *
* domain: olds@helix.nih.gov           NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, MD. 20892 USA *
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: baileyc@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Christopher R. Bailey)
Subject: Xlib.h vs. types.h on RS/6000
Keywords: IBM RS/6000, X, Xlib, types
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 02:58:38 GMT


We have X11R5 on our IBM RS/6000's.  I have a program I'm trying to build,
but keep getting the error:

In file included from /usr/local/X.V11R5/include/X11/Intrinsic.h:30, 
from X11/Xt_interface.c:15:
/usr/local/X.V11R5/include/X11/Xlib.h:64: conflicting types for `wchar_t'
/usr/include/sys/types.h:55: previous declaration of `wchar_t'

Xlib declares it as unsigned long, and types.h declares it as unsigned short.

This was using gcc, if I use cc, I get the same error, but undecipherable:

"/usr/local/X.V11R5/include/X11/Xlib.h", line 64.1: 1506-137 (S) Previous 
declaration must declare at le.
"/usr/local/X.V11R5/include/X11/Xlib.h", line 64.23: 1506-046 (S) Syntax error.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

What do I do about this?  

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: glm@ipgaix.unipg.it (Gianfranco Galmacci)
Subject: interface library toward X-windows, MsWindows, Macintosh
Summary: looking for an interface library for X-windows ms-windows & macintosh
Keywords: windows, interface library
Organization: Universita' di Perugia
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 11:43:16 GMT

I'm going to start a project which consists of a sw tool
to be used in different platforms( eg: X-windows, ms windows
and Macintosh). So I'm looking for some library which can
operate as an interface between a c-program and the various
windows environment avoiding to build a different program
for each standard. Does anyone knows something about
such a library? 
Thanks a lot.
Gianfranco Galmacci
Dept. of Statistics
Perugia - ITALY 
-- 



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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: steve@ecf.toronto.edu (Steve Kotsopoulos)
Subject: Re: XRemote
Keywords: XRemote, NCD, X-Terminal Serial Interface
Organization: University of Toronto, Engineering Computing Facility
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 21:27:35 GMT

In article <2061@tfd.tfd.com> bret@tfd.COM (Bret Weinraub) writes:
>
>My question here is regarding the NCD XRemote Serial X-Terminal
>protocol.
>
>Basically, does anyone know what is the state of the art method of
>connecting an X-Terminal over a serial interface?
>
>That's what XRemote is for, right?  

Yes.

I use it all the time from home. It works very well with 9600 baud modems.
I believe it out-performs all other X-over-serial-line systems.

Until I see a better system (Xremote version II from NCD :-),
I agree that it IS state of the art.

-- 
Steve Kotsopoulos                   mail:   steve@ecf.toronto.edu
Systems Analyst                     bitnet: steve@ecf.UTORONTO.BITNET
Engineering Computing Facility      uucp:   uunet!utai!ecf!steve
University of Toronto               phone:  (416) 978-5898
From: dmurray@xihu.inria.fr (Don Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XView panel buttons... why don't they adjust??
Date: 19 Dec 92 14:23:44 GMT
Organization: INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis (Fr)

I am building an XView image viewing program with is
simply a panel on top with a few buttons and a canvas
below which displays the image.

The problem is:  when I load a new image, I re-size the
canvas and paint-window to the new image size....
The problem is the panel. 
I have a default canvas start size of 512x512.  The panel lays out
the buttons horizontally and usually takes up about 2/3s of
the available space.

However, if I then load a smaller image, which is not as
wide as the existing # of panel buttons, I get trouble.
 Depending on how I call
'window_fit_height' or 'window_fit_width' either I
have a short panel matching the size of a small image
with some buttons cut in half or existing beyond the
view of the user, requiring the user to resize the window,
OR
I have a window that is propped open the extra distance to
fit the buttons in existing format, with a lot of white
ugly space next to the canvas where nothing is.

Is there a way in XView to get the panel to sort itself out
and adjust the panel buttons position to fit the
panel width I give it, AFTER the initial panel is made and
the buttons laid out?

Thanks in advance....

Don Murray (hoping someone else out there uses XView as well)
From: david@breslau.ap.mchp.sni.de (David Smyth)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Q: Wcl2.3 experimental external interface?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 14:53:10 GMT
Organization: Siemens-Nixdorf AG
NNTP-Posting-Host: breslau.ap.mchp.sni.de

jay@vnet.ibm.com writes:
>I'm looking for more information about the experimental external interface
>mentioned in Wcl23.Announce.
>
>A colleague of mine created a handy tool called ``mish'' (Motif Interface
>SHell) based on tcl 4.0 and wcl 1.06, I believe.  It was used to prototype
>a lot of interfaces but those interfaces were eventually rewritten in C and
>mish ended up laying on the shelf.

This type of tool is the intended client of the "experimental external
interface" mentioned in Wcl23.Announce:

    o   Experimental external interface to the LateBinder mechanism, which
        is intended to support people using Wcl to provide interfaces to
        interpretive environments (like perl).

The external interface to the late binder mechanism remains identical for
Wcl 2.4 (released Friday).

I suppose the best place to look for information on the Late Binder is
WcLateBind.c and WcCreateP.h and WcCreate.h.  Especially, read the comments
titled "Experimental External Interfaces to WcLateBinder" in WcCreateP.h.

The basic idea is to allow all callback invocations to be intercepted
by a client (such as "mish") and sent to an interpreter (like tcl or
perl or...).  Wcl uses this interception to resolve methods: The Wcl
Late Binder looks to find the object to be manipulated by a given
method invocation.  The late binder uses the callback name and object
class name to find the object and invoke the appropriate callback method.

The Hook function, registered with Wcl using WcAddLateBinderHook(),
gets a WcLateBind object to use to resolve the callback.

NOTE: Actions are not directly supported with the late binder.  You
can, of course, provide actions which invoke callbacks...

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David E. Smyth			David.Smyth@ap.mchp.sni.de
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
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: btaylor@mcl.bdm.com (Brent Taylor)
Subject: The cursesX beep() call
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 22:42:42 GMT
Organization: BDM International, Inc.

I am having a problem with the standard beep call in the cursesX library.
I make a simple call to it 'i=beep();' and include the cursesX lib in the
link stage (-lcursesX), and when I run it I get a segmentation fault. If
you have any insights I would appreciated them. Thank you.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: u438813@ba.ncu.edu.tw (Lin Wei-Ting)
Subject: Let the pointer still in a window.
Reply-To: u438813@ba.ncu.edu.tw
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 12:48:47 GMT


I want the pointer still in a window.
I tried to do this.
	if(event_action(event) == LOC_WINEXIT)
		{
		x=event_x(event);
		y=event_y(event);
		XWarpPointer(theDisplay,None,xwin,0,0,0,0,x,y);
But it cannot work.
How to do ?
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: ttraub@world.std.com (Terry Traub)
Subject: Info wanted on X Technical Conference
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: US
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 04:31:23 GMT

Can anyone tell me where to obtain information on the X Technical
Conference?  Thanks.

Terry
From: oj@miki.pictel.com (Oliver Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: comp.graphics
Summary: use regions.
Keywords: FillRules, XfillRule, enclosed regions
Date: 15 Dec 92 17:48:53 GMT
Organization: PictureTel Corporation

In article <1gilalINNi5v@uwm.edu> amit@point.cs.uwm.edu (Amit Srivastava) writes:
>I need a fill	
>routine written in X, that will provide me following capabilities:
>
>a) check if a (X,Y) point lies in an enclosed region
>b) if it does, then fill the region

How about using XPolygonRegion, XPointInRegion, and XFillPolygon?
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: wjohnson@nmsu.edu (Wilbur Johnson)
Subject: X11R4 
Keywords: X11 X11R4 R4 4.1.3
Reply-To: wjohnson@nmsu.edu
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:56:08 GMT

For the past week(s) I've been attempting to install X11R4 on a Sparc 1+ running
SunOS 4.1.3. This posting is a testament to my success.  Can anyone tell me if
there is a problem getting R4 up on 4.1.3? Following are two symtoms I am
experiencing:

  1. In clients/bitmap the loader cannot find several functions of the flavor
      Xt* (e.g. XtMalloc).  The make fails with an error code 2 but leaves me with
      a "bitmap" binary that does execute with no apparent trouble.To make things worse,
      when I fiddle with the make file and force a static compilation  using -Bstatic,
      the problem goes away.

       Along with this, if I stuff $(XTOOLLIB) into the make file at the $(CC) point
       I get a whole new set of undefined symbols, albeit a smaller list, including
       "XtToolkitInitialize".

  2. In clients/twm, I get a complaint that "NoStackModel" & "StackMode" are
     undefined in gram.y.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

wjohnson@nmsu.edu

  


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Wilbur R. Johnson
From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Why do people call it X-windowS?
Date: 16 Dec 1992 10:24:25 -0600
Organization: Cafe Limbo
Reply-To: bin@primate.wisc.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: uakari.primate.wisc.edu

From article <1992Dec16.142232.25225@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, by mccoy@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel J. McCoy):
> In article 598@lth.se, jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg) writes:
> |>In article <1992Dec16.092825.25666@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Stumpf) writes:
> |>|> The quote you are looking for is by Jim Fulton, if I remember correctly
> |>|> and it is:
> |>|> 
> |>|> "It is a window system called X, not a system called X Windows"
> |>
> |>Where can I find this quote?
> |>I remember seeing it in some X-source or X-manual, but I've forgotten 
> |>where.
> 
> Are we bored or WHAT?  In the file .../mit/README-R4 at the bottom.
> The quote is, "It's a window system named X, not a system names X Window."

Well, both of the above misquote the quote.  Maybe I'll be the third:

	"It's a window system named X, not a system named X Window."

By the way, the quote is also found in mit/README from X11R3.
-- 
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.sys.mac.comm,comp.sys.mac.apps
From: saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian E. Saunders)
Subject: Re: Logitech 3-button mouse with MacX
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Date: 15 Dec 92 12:30:18 CST
Keywords: macx x windows 3-button mouse logitech

In article <1gl27jINN6i1@early-bird.think.com> ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) writes:
>In article <BzB5EH.2BG@news.cso.uiuc.edu> stankerr@uiuc.edu writes:
>
>>There are a few 3-button mice on the market that are purported to
>>work with MacX. I just got a Logitech MouseMan and would like to offer
>>my comments and solicit suggestions. 
>
>I just got the Logitech mouse and, although the manual explains how to
>use it with MacX, I was instantly disappointed. Turns out that if you
>set the buttons to anything but a normal click, additional modifier
>keys are ignored. Suppose I want to change my VT options in xterm,
>that's control-middle to drop the menu. But the Logitech software
>ignores the control key, so I have to go back to MacX's keyboard
>equivalents which require three hands for this operation. (Left hand
>for the control key, middle hand for the arrow key, and right hand to
>manipulate the mouse and make the menu selection.)
>
>I called Logitech technical support about this, and they claimed it
>will be fixed in a future version of the software. They would not give
>a date.

So, this is a Logitech problem.  I wondered....  Yes, this is annoying,
but luckily I don't have to use the control-click all that much.

Unfortunately, I have small hands, and the larger, supposedly-ergonomic
Mouseman was a bit too big for me, which led to me developing carpal-tunnel
syndrome in my right hand.  If you have big hands, this is probably nothing
to worry about, but if you have small hands, I'd be careful about how you
held you hand over the mouse while it is in resting position.
-- 

Brian E. Saunders			saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: shirleyk@qualix.com (Shirley Kumamoto)
Subject: Re: C++ Wrapper for OLIT?
Keywords: C++ XView
Reply-To: shirleyk@qualix.com
Organization: QUALiX Group, Inc.
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:36:30 GMT

In article 22367@cc.ic.ac.uk, wang@ps.ic.ac.uk (Haushan Wang) writes:
> 
> Dear X_perts,
> 
> I am working on a project of an OO approach to system studies.  An important
> aspect of this project is graphical user interface and system representation.
> We have decided to use C++ as the programming language, but are still in the 
> process of determining which GUI standard to base our applications on.
> We like to use OPEN LOOK (tm), so here is my question: is there a C++ wrapper
> library for the AT&T OLIT widget set, like the WWL for Motif (by Fekete) or
> UIT for XView (by SUN)?  If so where to get it (ftp for PD /contacts for commercial)?
> I am not looking for UI builders such as DevGuide, but rather
> a more abstract OO interface to the toolkit.
> I have checked the FAQ but could not find the exact info.  Please email to me.
> Your help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> H. Wang
> 
> 
> 
> email: wang@sunfs1.ps.ic.ac.uk

While I don't know of a C++ wrapper for OLIT, there is one for
XVIew which is called xv++.  It's a C++ class library (not a builder)
that provides a complete replacement API to XView.  If you'd
like more info, you can get this via a mailserver program by 
doing the following:

send an email to qfacts@qualix.com (or uunet!qualix!qfacts) and
include the following lines:
BEGIN
send xv++.info
END
Name
Address
Phone

and the xv++ information will automatically be sent to you.





Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: william@bourbon.cs.ucla.edu (William Cheng)
Subject: Re: Any free X11 remote illustration tools?
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 04:15:23 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.020941.22305@watson.ibm.com> tedlaw@vnet.ibm.com (Theodore C. Law) writes:
>"Talk" is a useful tool for text based discussion tool between remote
>sites.  I wonder if there are any remote illustration tools that allows
>me to draw on one workstation running X11, much like xfig, but display
>both locally and remotely on another workstation?

If I remember correctly, wscrawl lets you do that.  It's a PAINT-type
tool (while xfig is a DRAW-type tool).  Last time I found it on
sax.stanford.edu <36.103.0.27>, but I can't logon as anonymous any more.
Does anyone know if there is an alternative site to ftp it?
-- 
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3564-C Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, California 90024 // USA
william@CS.UCLA.EDU      ...!{uunet|ucbvax}!cs.ucla.edu!william
From: datl@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (le dat trieu)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: HELP: How to "fake" a pgup or pgdn for a motif scrollbar?
Keywords: scrollbar
Date: 17 Dec 92 23:58:57 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana


I am posting this for a friend:

How can I invoke the appropriate Motif callback for a scroll bar as if the user
has selected page up or page down on a scroll bar.  I have a scrolled window
with several text widget in it for user input.  A page up or page down scrolls
to the previous or next row of text widgets.  I need to be able to display the
appropriate row in order to prompt the user to enter values in a particular
row of text widgets.  Can I use XSendEvent ot XtCallCallbacks to do this?

The scrolled window is in automatic mode.  This is the only control I want to
exert over it, so I don't want to have to handle all scrolled window events
manually.

Thanks in advance.

J. Brown
brown@ecc2.dsd.northrop.com
From: cnbs63@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ("J.T.Bennett")
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: What is the format of Pixmaps
Keywords: Pixmaps, GC
Date: 10 Dec 92 11:42:39 GMT
Organization: University of Strathclyde

I am writing a program under Openwindows 3 on a Sparc workstation that generates a graphic image from some data and need to store the
image in a drawable to display it. So I created a pixmap with XCreatePixmap command and then
transfer the image to the pixmap. This is where the problem comes in.

The image is stored in an integer array consisting of numbers between 0 and 99 (100 colours).
The only command I could find in the Xlib - C Interface book by Gettys, Scheifler and Newman
was :

  XDrawPoints(dpy, pixmap, gc, ...)

I generate an array of positions for colour 0 and set the foreground colour of the GC to
colour 0 and call the above routine. I do this for each 100 colours.

Does anyone know the format of the pixmap so that I can write the pixel value directly into
the pixmap array rather than using a intermediate routine which takes much longer !

Thank you for attention !

Jeremy
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: jain@spectra.com (Sadhana Jain)
Subject: Re: XDM configuration question
Keywords: XDM, SGI
Organization: Spectragraphics Corporation
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 18:40:40 GMT

In article <BzCzoD.n3L@andy.bgsu.edu> herber@andy.bgsu.edu (Steve Herber) writes:
>(Background: I am using X11R4 XDM modified with the Univ of Washington
>hacks to allow a menu of hosts to select from.  I haven't got the R5
>xdm installed yet...)
>
>I have been trying to configure the config files for XDM to allow
>a X window login box to appear on my SGI IRIX console but to prevent
>XDM from responding to network broadcast requests.  The problem
>here is that a lab of NCD X terminals here on campus have been
>set up to broadcast XDM requests to allow a number of systems to
>paint a 'login menu' on the terminals.  The problem is that the
>SGI system also responds with the login window for it's system.
>
>...so basicly, how do I turn off the ability for the SGI XDM server
>to respond to these network broadcasts?  We have tried setting the
>/usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers file to ":0 Local local /usr/bin/X11/X :0"
>without success...
>
>I realize that I could direct the XDM request to a specific server

1. How about starting SGI XDM and Xserver at a different udpPort (other than
default 177)? 


2. If X server is using XDM-AUTHENTICATION-1 scheme, then you could setup
   magic cookie values so that XDM server responds to the servers whose
   magic cookie values match with its own (defined in xdm-keys file). 


Hope this helps.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: guenther@stolaf.edu (Philip Guenther)
Subject: Re: setting DISPLAY env variable
Organization: Academic Computing Center, St. Olaf College
	<1992Dec16.202347.8749@sth.frontec.se>
Date: 16 Dec 92 23:39:14

In article <1992Dec16.202347.8749@sth.frontec.se> bjst@sth.frontec.se (Bjorn Stenberg) writes:
   (NOTE: This works fine for *me*, I'm not saying it is the best or the only
   solution!)

This is true!  See below.

   Basically, we have two questions:

   1) Which machine/display should be set as active?
   2) How do we keep this active throughout the entire session?

   ...and two answers:

   1) The one I used the console to log into.
   2) Save the initial hostname in a file in the home directory and resurrect
      it each time we log in to a new host.

   Verbose version:

   In .cshrc (or equivalent) add:

   --------->8--------------------
   if ( $tty == 'console' ) then
	   hostname > $HOME/.loginhost
   endif
   setenv DISPLAY `cat $HOME/.loginhost`":0.0"
   ---------8<--------------------

The key problem with this is that if you ever login under X on more
than one machine at a time, you're hosed.  I have found the most
practical method for me to be merely an alias of setd to 'setenv
DISPLAY'.  If I *need* to run a X program from afar, well, I think I
know how to type.  Of course, I'm a minimalist...

Philip
--
guenther@stolaf.edu (Philip Guenther)       | The ACC might agree with me,
Student Sys Prog, Academic Computing Center | but with that bunch, (and me)
St Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057-1001  | you never know... :-) :-| :-(
"Life makes sense?  LIFE MAKES SENSE!!?  Where do people get these ideas?"-me
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.open-look