HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: aperez@caribe.prime.com (Arturo Perez x6739)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: OLIT PopupWindowShell woes
Date: 6 Nov 92 07:48:01 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: 4 Nov 92 21:31:14 GMT
Message-Id: <4228@cvbnetPrime.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.x

wht@gatekeeper.mis.tridom.com (Warren H. Tucker) writes:
> In an OLIT application, I am creating a PopupWindowShell
> which, when realized, obscures a StaticText widget.
> A popup callback does a setvalues on the StaticText background
> and string resources.  
> 
> When the popup goes away, the underlying StaticText is
> unchanged:  Neither the background color nor the
> text are unchanged.  By temporarily obscuring the
> StaticText with another window and uncovering it, presto,
> the update occurs.

This is a bug in the Sun OpenWindows server (xnews).
1056492 Widget doesn't redisplay new image after being unobscured

There is a patch for it:
 100444-28



But it suffers from:
Known problems:
 
1101123 x11news server fails to generate correct expose events with popup window


I've even seen it mentioned in their OpenWindows bug list.

Popup windows use backing store (y'know, so that they
don't have to refresh what lies underneath).

Well, if you modify the appearance of something
that is underneath a popup window then the 
beastie under that popup does not get an
expose event.

Arturo Perez
ComputerVision, a division of Prime
aperez@cvbnet.prime.com
Too much information, like a bullet through my brain -- The Police
From: ccoprdg@prism.gatech.EDU (Drew Gonczi)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: X11R5 Build Problem
Date: 11 Nov 92 04:39:05 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Date: 10 Nov 92 17:40:16 GMT
Message-Id: <74327@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


In <921109185034_71151.3557_CHE58-1@CompuServe.COM> 71151.3557@CompuServe.COM ("James E. Kinder") writes:

|>module utx_conv.c: "compiler(iropt) error: write_irfile: No space left
|>on device".  This is occurring in a disk partition that has over 750
|>megabytes free space.  The compiler is the C compiler provided with
|>SunOS 4.1.  utx_conv.c is a module of 144K plus bytes. 

Your C compiler means that it is out of space in /tmp.  I've had the
same problem myself.  You might consider adding a flag to the CFLAGS
that changes the directory the C compiler uses for temporary files.
I believe that a -temp=. will fix it.

Drew
-- 
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Operations Dept - Office of Information Technology
Computer Production Coordinator
drew.gonczi@oit.gatech.edu
From: mazur@bostech.com (Dave Mazur)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Trouble building X11R5 on Sun
Date: 7 Nov 92 23:12:31 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Boston Technology, Wakefield, MA

Date: 2 Nov 92 19:27:42 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Nov2.192742.3479@bostech.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

x netters:

Someone here grabbed X11R5 off export.lcs.mit.edu (as best I can tell - no
one will fess up! ).  I'm attempting to build it on a Sun4 running
SunOs 4.1.1 in an area other than the usual /usr/{bin,lib,include} so
that it won't screw up my system (and everyone else's system).

I set my PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the "new" X11R5 area.

When I type :

% xinit<cr>

I get:

failed to set default font path '<my local path>'

Fatal server error:
	could not open default font 'fixed'
XIO:  fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) on X server "(null)"
	.
	.


I set DISPLAY to "wildman:0.0" if that's any help.

The dir's in the search path exist and I can access them via the cmd line.
The fonts, fonts.dir, fonts.alias, files exist in the dir's.

Any suggestions?  Work arounds?  

I read in the FAQ that the X11R5 in crl.dec.com "is better".  
Would it be advisable to grab this one?

Thanks in advance,
dave
From: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Is there any way to re-direct audio output from host A to host B?
Date: 4 Nov 92 23:08:15 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Date: 1 Nov 1992 04:01:23 GMT
Message-Id: <1cvkqjINNm25@agate.berkeley.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <izeek.718622934@techunix.technion.ac.il> izeek@techunix.technion.ac.il (Ilan Aisic) writes:
:
:Well, this is not exactly an answer to the question however, 
:at least on the Sun, anyone that can "rlogin" to your host may
:take control of your sound device (/dev/audio and /dev/audioctl)
:and sound whatever he/she wants on your speaker.  Moreover, if
:you have a microphone connected, this guy may even snoop on you
:and listen to everthing that is going on in your room from his/her
:room without your knowledge.  I'm telling this because someone has
:done this to me...

This problem is well-known and addressed by /etc/fbtab.  Try man 5 fbtab
for details.

-- 
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International Computer Science Institute	stolcke@ucbicsi.bitnet
1947 Center St., Suite 600, Berkeley, CA 94704	(510) 642-4274 ext. 126
From: jesmith@bbn.com (Joshua E. Smith)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: xterm -S
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:20:13 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: 4 Nov 1992 22:56:01 GMT
Message-Id: <lfgl81INNlg4@news.bbn.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I am trying to combine two non-X programs, both of which interact with
the user via a command line interface.  I have changed one of the
programs so that it uses a couple of file descriptors instead of stdin
and stdout.  I would like to somehow connect these to an xterm
separate from the one which was used to start the program (think
fork()).

I see that xterm supports a slave mode (-S), but I need an example of
how it would be used.  Can anybody out there point me in the right
direction?  

I can't read news very easily, so please send responses to:
jesmith@bbn.com

Thanks in advance,
-Joshua
From: J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk (Jim Wight)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Compiling aXe. anything wrong?
Date: 9 Nov 92 23:03:09 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU

Date: 9 Nov 92 15:14:45 GMT
Message-Id: <BxGFoM.GI7@newcastle.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

bibhas@pico.engr.mun.ca (Bibhas Bhattacharya) writes:

>I too failed to compile aXe in the wee hours of this morning. I was too
>sleepy to remember what went exactly wrong, I think an undefined function.

Your posting does nothing to help the original poster, whom I have contacted
privately. I resent the fact that it might give the misleading impression that
aXe is difficult to build. To put the record straight I think it should be made
known that you have subsequently successfully built the current version.

>Does it use some special tool kit we don't have here?

No it doesn't. Everything that is required in addition to the Athena widgets is
contained in the distribution.

Jim
---
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Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle,  Tel: +44 91 222 8238
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom.              Fax: +44 91 222 8232
From: hopkins@cs.cmu.edu (Don Hopkins)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Fenger's statements about future of XView
Date: 9 Nov 92 00:40:23 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 04:32:45 GMT
Message-Id: <Bx6CMs.1p6.1@cs.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.x,alt.toolkits.xview

gam@beta.lanl.gov (Gim Mark) writes:

   svfenge@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steven Fenger) writes:
   >
   >XView programming support will be removed with Solaris 2.3 in the 1st Q
   >1994 timeframe.  Libraries will be removed a year after that.

   In his note, Mr. Fenger made a lot of similarly strong and seemingly
   well informed assertions.  Unfortunately he didn't say where he got his
   information, nor why his opinions should get any more weight than other
   rumors about XView.  Perhaps he will explain.

Even if he got his information straight from Sun, that doesn't mean
what they say will come to pass.  Sun used to say they were going to
keep supporting TNT, and use it to implement DOE, which certainly
didn't happen.  XView was designed to make it easy to port SunView
applications to X, not to write new applications, not to support the
deskset of the future.  Developing new applications on it is a bad
idea.  Politically XView is great because there were a lot of existing
programs ported to it, and programmers who know how to use the
interface.  But technically it's a horribly designed toolkit that a
lot of people at Sun want to get rid of, in the name of reducing the
number of toolkits that are almost but not quite entirely unlike Open
Look. 

If you really want a free simple well designed toolkit that has a
future, I suggest looking at Tk, which is based on the TCL extension
language, and is very easy to use from C.  

	-Don
From: cek@sdc.boeing.com (Conrad Kimball)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Design for independent UI development
Date: 5 Nov 92 11:44:29 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle, WA

Date: 30 Oct 92 18:46:15 GMT
Message-Id: <7307@fury.BOEING.COM>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.garnet

In article <2AE62C23.27686@ics.uci.edu>, echarne@ics.uci.edu (Eli B. Charne) writes:
|> 
|>   I'm interested in any pointers people may have to research/papers/etc
|>   that discuss design methods for large software systems to support
|>   independent development and evolution of the user
|>   interface.
|> 
|>   It is my experience that the user interface tends to be very tightly
|>   bound to the system that is being designed, and that the user
|>   interface code tends to be mixed in directly with application code,
|>   making it very hard to split up their development.
|> 
|>   I would greatly appreciate any response.

I, too, am interested in this issue.  Any net.wisdom out there?

--
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cek@sdc.boeing.com	| P.O. Box 24346, MS 7A-35
(206) 865-6410		| Seattle, WA  98124-0346
From: csandrew@uxmail.ust.hk (Andrew Wat)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Latin Font in X
Date: 9 Nov 92 10:36:18 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Date: 5 Nov 92 03:22:11 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Nov5.032211.12627@uxmail.ust.hk>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Hi,

I need to display French in my xterm. Which font should I use or get?
Please email me.

Thanks a lot.

Andrew Wat

email : csandrew@uxmail.ust.hk

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Department of Computer Science
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From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Translation Manager example problem
Date: 13 Nov 92 15:55:36 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany

Date: 13 Nov 92 09:28:12 GMT
Message-Id: <1dvsfcINNa20@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <1992Nov12.162841.4505@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com>,
c2xlai@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Larry A. Ice) writes:
|> What's wrong with this code?

The declaration of "quit". You declared it as a static function so it is
not visible outside its own source file.

-- 
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  Univ. Dortmund, IRB
  Postfach 500500         |)|/    Tel.: +49 231 755-4663
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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Which version of x server am I running?
Date: 8 Nov 92 21:30:16 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA

Date: 7 Nov 92 04:46:43 GMT
Message-Id: <1dfhnjINN246@early-bird.think.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <1992Nov6.215837.23500@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> c23mkb@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Mahesh Bagade) writes:
>How do I find out which version of X server am I running?

Use xdpyinfo and look at lines 2 through 4.  Version number 11.0
corresponds to X11, and when the vendor string is "MIT X Consortium" the
first digit of the vendor release number is the X11 release (other vendors
may put their own release number there -- for instance, Sun puts the
OpenWindows version number there).
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
From: tekantj@f109a.fdata.se (Anders Tj{der)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: WANTED: FAQ for X-windows
Date: 7 Nov 92 02:49:30 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: F|rsvarsData (Defence Data Systems Agency)

Date: 6 Nov 92 15:36:10 GMT
Message-Id: <BxAwoC.M5u@f109a.fdata.se>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Hello

I wonder if there is a FAQ for this group or for X-windows.
Could you please send it to me by email or post it in this newsgroup.
Please hurry. I'm in a great need for it.

Thank you.
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From: reid@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Bill Reid)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: HELP! Icons disappearing!
Date: 13 Nov 92 12:11:57 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 19:28:23 GMT
Message-Id: <BxD23C.LHH@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In <1992Nov3.195156.3170@riacs.edu> gt8741b@prism.gatech.edu (Chris Adams) writes:
>I am using Open Windows 2.0 on a Sun SPARCstaion IPX, with twm as my window
>manager.  Sometimes (apparently at random), when I iconify a window, the icon
>will appear and then immediately disappear.  The program does not die, however. 
>I can tell that the program (xterm or whatever) is still running by using ps. 
>What is going on, and how can I fix it?
>-- 

I have seen a similiar problem when I have saved my workspace/desktop from 
a screen with larger dimensions than the one I was using. The workspace
clients were saved with icon positions which were off-screen on the smaller
screen.
From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Want to overlay bitmap onto a pixmap
Date: 11 Nov 92 02:28:31 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

Date: Fri, 6 Nov 92 12:09:20 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Nov6.120920.24181@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <RPB.92Nov3144841@brain.psy.ox.ac.uk>, rpb@psy.ox.ac.uk (Ray Bellis) writes:

> I have an application where a 3D wireframe object is rendered into a
> 1 bit deep pixmap and a shaded version is rendered into an 8 bit deep
> pixmap.  I'd like to overlay the wireframe image onto the shaded
> image, and have the wire frame appear in white on top, with the
> original black parts of the wireframe not altering the shaded image.
> I've tried using an XCopyArea with a GCFunction of GXor but that
> doesn't seem to work.

When copying from a one-bit pixmap to something deeper, you can't use
XCopyArea - you must use XCopyPlane.  But you also have to deal with
modifying only the portions of the deep pixmap you want to.  (To
simplify the language, I'll speak of "the bitmap" and "the pixmap",
meaning the 1-bit and 8-bit pixmaps, respectively.)

Assuming you've drawn the wireframe in 1s on a background of 0s in the
bitmap, and assuming that "gc" is a graphics context of depth 8 on the
same screen as the pixmap,

	set gc foreground=~0, background=0, function=GXandInverted
	XCopyPlane from bitmap to pixmap
	set gc foreground=white, function=GXor
	XCopyPlane from bitmap to pixmap

If you've got the bitmap drawn with 0s on a background of 1s, then just
read "background" for "foreground", and vice versa, in the above.
There are other possible ways of setting up the fg/bg/function values;
for example,

	first XCopyPlane: fg=0, bg=~0, function=GXorInverted
	second XCopyPlane: fg=white, function=GXand

There are some other possibilities, of course.  You can set the bitmap
as the stipple in the GC, set the fill-style to FillStippled, and call
XFillRectangle.  You can set the bitmap as the clip-mask of the GC and
call XFillRectangle.  (Both these require you to draw with 1s on a
background of 0s in the bitmap.)  There may be other possibilities, but
none occur to me at the moment.  In most cases I would guess calling
XCopyPlane twice will give you best performance, but if possible I
recommend you try them all and see.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
From: CARANCM%IMIHSRA.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (Massimo Caranchini)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Immage conversion
Date: 12 Nov 92 15:30:28 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Message-Id: <9211121408.AA11619@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date:         Thu, 12 Nov 92 14:59:22 GMT

Dear X-gurus,
my problem is to convert an immage dumped with "XWD command", to a
format readable by a Personal Computer (gif, tif, bmp, etc. )

Is there any other way to capture a screen in AIX environment with
such formats ??
Many thanks in advance ||

                             Regards, Massimo Caranchini


carancm@imihsra.bitnet
carancm@hsr.it
From: 9138827a@levels.unisa.edu.au
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Telecommuters, Remote Workers
Date: 13 Nov 92 00:56:42 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of South Australia

Date: 4 Nov 92 20:55:14 +1030
Message-Id: <19182.2af838b2@levels.unisa.edu.au>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

This item has been cross-posted to comp.os.ms-windows.apps,
comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest and comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
=====================================================================

I am undertaking postgraduate study at the School of Library and
Information Management, University of South Australia, Adelaide, on
the particular information needs of telecommuters - those who perform
job-related work at a site away from an organisation and communicate
electronically rather than commuting physically.
 
I would be very interested in, and would greatly appreciate a response
from those who are telecommuters, to the following questions. If you
are not a telecommuter but know of others who are it would be
appreciated if you could pass this on to them:
 
 
Q1      Does the organisation to which you telecommute provide any
        library and information services which are accessible to you
        online? (eg catalogs, reference assistance, databases, literature
        searches, document delivery services, organisation information
        such as daily bulletins and administrative gazettes.)
 
        If yes:
 
        (a) What services are provided?
        (b) How useful are these services to you?
 
Q2      (a)     What is the nature of the organisation to which you
                telecommute?
 
        (b)     If you sometimes commute physically to your organisation,
                how frequently do you do this?
 
Q3      What are the particular information needs that you have as a
        telecommuter?
 
Q4      What basic information services do you consider should be
        provided by an organisation for its telecommuters? (see Q5 for
        additional and desirable services)
 
Q5      What additional information services would you perceive as being
        highly desirable for an organisation to provide for its
        telecommuters?
 
Q6      Are there any further comments you wish to make regarding the
        information needs of telecommuters?
 
Q7      Would you like a summary of the results of this survey E-mailed
        to you?
 
Respondents can be assured that individuals and organisations will not
be identified in any report or summary of this survey.
 
Please E-mail your response to my Internet address:
 
9138827a@ntx.city.unisa.edu.au
 
Thank you for your cooperation
 
Bronwen Strong
From: gt8741b@prism.gatech.edu (Chris Adams)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: HELP!  Icons disappearing!
Date: 8 Nov 92 11:48:39 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Date: Tue, 3 Nov 92 19:51:56 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Nov3.195156.3170@riacs.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I posted this last week, but then my newsserver died, and I never got any
responses.  I need help!

I am using Open Windows 2.0 on a Sun SPARCstaion IPX, with twm as my window
manager.  Sometimes (apparently at random), when I iconify a window, the icon
will appear and then immediately disappear.  The program does not die, however. 
I can tell that the program (xterm or whatever) is still running by using ps. 
What is going on, and how can I fix it?
-- 
Chris Adams                       | "If tin whistles are made of tin,
Georgia Tech                      |  what do they make foghorns from?"
Internet: gt8741b@prism.gatech.edu|       --  Lonnie Donegan
----------------------------------+ 


--
Chris Adams                       | "If tin whistles are made of tin,
Georgia Tech                      |  what do they make foghorns from?"
Internet: gt8741b@prism.gatech.edu|       --  Lonnie Donegan
----------------------------------+
From: leonp@cs.kun.nl (Leon Pillich)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Changing focus to a fresh window -> crash!
Date: 7 Nov 92 10:10:04 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Date: 6 Nov 92 20:52:53 GMT
Message-Id: <BxBBC6.H9J@sci.kun.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

n my program I have a bit of code like this:
...
  XtPopup(dialog);
  XSetFocus(display,RevertToNone,XtWindow(dialog),CurrentTime);
...
(maybe that parameters should be in different orders but thats not
 the problem)

This piece of code crashes with a bad match error ...
I suspect it has something to do with that the window is not
immediatly visible after popup.
How can I prevend this error?

I actually need to do this, whether this is normal X practice or not.
Can I prevend this error by getting all events until a
visibility event and dispatching them (with XtDispatch) by "hand"?

Does anybody have any experience with this?
Can anybody help me?

Thnx, (please respond by email).


Leon Pillich
University of Nijmegen, Holland
email: leonp@cs.kun.nl
-------------------------------------------------------------
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From: pwyoung@sandbox.hampshire.edu (Peter Young)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: probs with PANEL_LIST item
Date: 7 Nov 92 22:21:56 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

Date: 5 Nov 92 21:42:03 GMT
Message-Id: <Bx9Iy3.EJ3@nic.umass.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.toolkits.xview,comp.windows.open-look,comp.windows.x

when I try to access the value PANEL_LIST_FIRST_SELECTED,
or PANEL_VALUE via xv_get on an exclusive PANEL_LIST, I get
the following error messages, respectively:

XView warning: bad attribute, attr # 0x555f0a20

XView warning: bad attribute, PANEL_VALUE

how do I get the index of the selected item in an 
*exclusive* PANEL_LIST_ITEM?

my code looks something like this:

i = (int)xv_get( panelItem, 
                 PANEL_LIST_FIRST_SELECTED 
                 /* or PANEL_VALUE*/);

strcpy( string, (char *)xv_get( panelItem, 
                                PANEL_LIST_STRING, 
                                i) );