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From: weimer@spud.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Gary Weimer 726-3370)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: xset fp+ fails with (some) soft linked directories
Keywords: xset
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:55:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: pixel.1992Aug25.195557.17466
Reply-To: weimer@pixel.kodak.com
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co.; Rochester, NY

In article <1992Aug24.161323.26819@ichips.intel.com>, tmcconne@sedona.intel.com (Tom McConnell) writes:
|> 
|>   Environment: X11R5p12
|>   System:      RS/6000, AIX 3.2
|>   Files System: NFS, Auspex fileservers, automounter.
|> 
|>   I have a problem using "xset fp+" on some NFS mounted directories on an Auspex
|> fileserver. The directory in question is mounted using the automounter (I don't
|> know which version).
|> 
|>   Here is the error:
|> 
|>     % xset fp+ /usr/cad/tec/9.39/fonts/snf/ 
|>     X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
|>      operation)
|>     Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)
|>     Value in failed request:  0xc
|>     Serial number of failed request:  4
|>     Current serial number in output stream:  6
|> 
|> and here is some interesting information on how the directory looks (this gets
|> confusing):

|>   So, in effect, we have this:
|> 
|>     /usr/cad -> /home/cad.ibm6000.3.2 -> /a/usr/cad.gen/rs6k3.2
|> 
|> and both /usr and /home are local mount points. The "/a" is from the automounter.
|> 
|>   Ok. xset fails with all of the following:
|> 
|>     % xset fp+ /a/usr/cad.gen/rs6k3.2/tec/9.39/fonts/snf/
|>     % xset fp+ /usr/cad.gen/rs6k3.2/tec/9.39/fonts/snf/
|>     % xset fp+ /usr/cad/tec/9.39/fonts/snf/
|> 
|> BUT, xset works with this:
|> 
|>     % xset fp+ /home/cad.ibm6000.3.2/tec/9.39/fonts/snf/
|> 

Mmmm. I thought I knew your problem until I saw that the last one works.
Running X11R5p13 on a Sun4, SunOS 4.1.1, I was adding aliases to the
fonts.alias file so that I could reference courR12.pcf as courR12, etc.
Unfortunately, my first sed script to append to the fonts.alias file did
not remove the number at the top of the fonts.dir file, resulting in an
error (because of the integer on a line by itself).

Another thing I discovered was that adding too many font aliases will
cause the server to hang. What I did:

% cd /packages/X11R5/share/lib/X11/fonts
% foreach x (100dpi 75dpi misc)
? cd $x
? cp fonts.alias fonts.alias.orig
? sed -n 's/\.pcf//p' fonts.dir >> fonts.alias
? cd ..
? end

After doing this, the server would hang. After restoring
{100dpi,misc}/fonts.alias (but leaving 75dpi/fonts.alias) everything
worked again.

-- 

Gary Weimer (weimer@pixel.kodak.com)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: g8524394@cc.uow.edu.au (David John Atkinson)
Subject: ethernet monitor wanted
Keywords: ethernet
Organization: University Of Wollongong
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 04:47:28 GMT


Is there a simple X based utility for monitoring the traffic on an ethernet
(that is all the traffic in terms of packets) and display it as a simple
scrolled graph like th performance tool on a Sun. (This tool is wanted to run
on a Sun).

Does anything exist ?

Thanks in advance,

Dave Atkinson
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: fhl@milton.u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Subject: Help with Xview3 and Calentool???
Followup-To: comp.windows.x.apps
Reply-To: dean2@tbone.biol.scarolina.edu (Dean Pentcheff) 
Organization: Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 06:52:13 GMT

I'm running X11R5.P17 on a Sparc IPC under SunOS 4.1.1.  I've just
attempted to compile xview3, including the first patch containing
"shar"ed files, and Patch #1.  The "make World" and "make install"s
appeared to go just fine.

The reason for compiling xview was to compile calentool (specifically,
calentool2.2Xp1).  Things did not go so well.  It turns out that there
are some XView config files that never get installed anywhere.  They
are the files in the <xview-source>/config directory.  They include:
XView.cf, XView.lib, XView.obj, XView.prog, XView.rules, and
XView.tmpl.  The "xmkmf" in the calentool source directory wouldn't
work until I had explicitly linked those files into the X11/config
directory.  Following that maneuver, the calentool source compiled.

1) How should the XView config files have been installed in the first
   place?

2) When I start calentool, I get the messages:
	ld.so: warning: /usr/X11R5/lib/libxview.so.3.1 has older 
		revision than expected 2
	ld.so: warning: /usr/X11R5/lib/libolgx.so.3.1 has older 
		revision than expected 2
   I also get the second message upon starting olwm.  What's going on
   there?  What should I do about it?

3) Under twm, the calentool icon is notably uninspiring (an empty
   box).  Is there some way to get this to work properly under twm.
   Note that the icon looks like a cute little calendar under olwm.

4) Also under twm, is there any way to get the sun/moon subwindows to
   properly return to their iconified form within the calendar window?
   In twm, when I want to get rid of them, they turn into standard
   window icons, dissociated from the calendar window.  This happens
   only under twm, not olwm.

5) Is there some clever way to make a recurring appointment for
   certain days of the week (e.g. MWF appointments)?


Thanks for the help!

-Dean
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: doug@happy.vf.ge.com (Doug Hughes)
Subject: C++ debugging tools
Followup-To: comp.windows.x.apps
Reply-To: doug@happy.vf.ge.com
Organization: GE Aerospace - VF
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:41:15 GMT


gdb, xxgdb, dbxtool and ups are all excellent tools for debugging C.
However, does anybody know if there is a debugger for C++?  I tried
gdb and ups, but gdb core dumped and ups only showed the .c files that
were linked in (unfortunately, main wasn't in one of them so it doesn't
do me much good).  Does the latest version of gdb support c++ (g++)?

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From: mockus@reactor.ecn.purdue.edu (Linas Mockus)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: save_under attribute
Date: 28 Aug 92 19:10:53 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

XSetWindowAttributes attr;

attr .save_under = True;
XChangeWindowAttributes (...,CWSaveUnder, &attr);
for pop-up menu window. But! when menu disapears
the window under it is not automaticaly restored - area where menu
was is left blank. Can anybody help? Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: css@sampson.ccsf.caltech.edu (Chris Shenton)
Subject: Address for Andrew finger demo?
Organization: Hughes/STX, Lanham, MD
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:50:25 GMT

I'm looking for the address you can finger to get an over-the-net demo
of the Andrew graphics goodies. Can anyone help me out? 

Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: Steve.Johnson@math.tamu.edu (Steve Johnson)
Subject: Any free RTF editor for X?
Keywords: RTF rich text 
Reply-To: Steve.Johnson@math.tamu.edu
Organization: Dept of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:32:55 GMT

Does anyone know if there is a (preferrably free) X-based editor for
Rich-Text-Format files?  How about NeWS-based?

Just curious.

- Steve Johnson, Systems Manager, Dept of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
  Steve.Johnson@math.tamu.edu



Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: david@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (David Dantowitz)
Subject: Porting Dirt to the IBM RS/6000
Originator: david@oahu.cs.ucla.edu
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 05:18:13 GMT


Hi,
 
I'm new to X, etc. and trying to save time building an interface
using Dirt, but first I have to get it running on an IBM RS/6000.
 
Has anyone out there already ported this beast?   I'm trying not
to re-invent the wheel.
 
Thanks,
        David
-- 
David Dantowitz
david@cs.ucla.edu

Singing Barbershop when I'm not doing parallel simulation
From: tda10@camcus.cam.ac.uk (Tim Auckland)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Looking for mouse button viewer app
Keywords: x mouse viewer
Date: 26 Aug 92 11:58:01 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge, England

In article <2221@fnnews.fnal.gov>, schurech@nightcrawler.fnal.gov (kurt schurecht) writes:
|> I am looking for an X windows application that will pop up a window with
|> a picture of the three mouse buttons.  When a button is pressed anywhere
|> on the desktop, the corresponding button will be highlighted.  Are there 
|> any applications out there similar to this?

twm (and it's relatives) will do something like this if you press two or more
buttons together.

For as long as at least one button is pressed, it will display a mouse-shaped
(not the furry type!) pointer with the last button press marked.

If this isn't quite what you want, i'm sure the twm source will give a clue.

Tim.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: kdeacon@nmsu.edu (DEACON)
Subject: X via modem?
Organization: NMSU Computer Science
Distribution: comp.windows.x.apps
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 23:35:09 GMT

Does there exist some sort of X server/client that can talk across a
modem dialup line?  Either public domain or commercial.
Thanks
Keith

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.intrinsics,comp.windows.x.motif
From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
Subject: Dirt GUI editor problem
Followup-To: comp.windows.x.apps
Organization: Design Systems Division, Evans & Sutherland, SLC, UT
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 21:27:25 GMT

[Sorry for the cross-post, but I want to reach anyone who might have
found a workaround/fix for this problem -- followups are directed to
comp.windows.x.apps]

I sent the following message to the "author" listed for the DiRT (design
in real-time) user interface editor, but he didn't respond.  Now I am
asking the net to see if anyone has also seen this problem and/or
knows how to fix/workaround it.

			    =-=-=-=-=-=-
    I have been trying to play with Dirt, but I can't seem to get the
editor to come up.  I have version "Alpha 2".  I can run the supplied
examples just fine, but when I try to run the editor I get this text:

mesa 159> ./dirt
Warning: Cannot convert string "xtdefaultfont" to type FontStruct
Error: attempt to add non-widget child "world" to parent
    "_dirtConnection" which supports only widgets

    Do you have any ideas what might be wrong?  When I dbx'ed the
executable, it generated that error way down inside one of the Xukc
routines that attempts to create the template user interface.  I'm
running on a MIPS R3000 and RISC/os 4.52.  My default visual is a
24-bit TrueColor, but it gives the same error on an 8-bit pseudocolor
visual, so I don't think that the problem has to do with visuals and
assumptions about color environments (often a problem with contrib
software).  Usually widget-based code manages to grok the color
environment just fine.  Any help you could lend me would be most
appreciated!
			    =-=-=-=-=-=-

						-- Rich
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: cop18@lehre25.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE (Kompilerpraktikum Gruppe18)
Subject: Trying to compile xfig2.1.4		
Organization: Universitaet Bremen
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:17:45 GMT

Today I tried to compile xfig 2.1.4 on our HP9000/720. It worked all fine 
until u_undo.c. After this part part I got a Bus Error and signal 10.

Is there somebody who could help out ??

 
                         Dirk
From: envbvs@epb9.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Trying to compile xfig2.1.4
Date: 1 Sep 1992 16:37:24 GMT
Organization: lbl
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.12.98

In article <1992Aug31.161745.1912@informatik.uni-bremen.de>, cop18@lehre25.informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE (Kompilerpraktikum Gruppe18) writes:
|> Today I tried to compile xfig 2.1.4 on our HP9000/720. It worked all fine 
|> until u_undo.c. After this part part I got a Bus Error and signal 10.
|> 
|> Is there somebody who could help out ??


Please send me a stack trace and I'll see what I can find.  First, compile
u_undo.c with the -g option so the full symbol information is available
for the stack trace.

I haven't heard about this problem on HP's.

-- 
Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: schwager@cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schwager)
Subject: Looking for Appointment Scheduler
Summary: I need one
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:21:52 GMT


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
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: oj@miki.pictel.com (Oliver Jones)
Subject: Re: Pixmaps: XY or Z ?
Organization: PictureTel Corporation
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:24:13 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.070958.10963@walter.cray.com> vincent@cadillac.cray.com (Vincent LE BARAZER) writes:

> What is the difference between XYPixmap and ZPixmap ?

You can think of an XYPixmap-format XImage as a vector of bitmaps,
whereas you can think of a ZPixmap-format XImage as a two-dimensional
array of pixel values.

>When using XGetImage, it seems that ZPixmaps makes it run faster
>than XYPixmaps ..??

Well, many color servers have a "natural" pixmap format which looks
like ZPixmap.  If you ask such servers to deliver XYPixmap-format
XImages, the bits in the image have to be reformatted.  This takes
time.

Ollie Jones
From: nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Other lists like x-source-list?
Date: 30 Aug 92 21:17:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: reed.1992Aug30.211725.1869
Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR

In article <1992Aug30.133801.20804@uts.cc.wayne.edu> tom@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Thomas Richard Stevenson) writes:
>I've pulls off the /crontrib/x-source-list from export.lcs.mit.edu

do you mean export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/00-index.txt? That's a list of
descriptions of X sources.

>export.lcs.mit.edu has many X programs in it that are not listed in
>this list

that list was only established a few months ago. Some very kind person
(I wish I could remember who) agreed to edit the list and then asked
folks to contribute descriptions, and then several of us wrote up as
many descriptions as we could manage.

If you know what a program does that is not on that list, please mail
in a description.

>Having lists like x-source-list help weed through all of the programs
>out there at all of the ftp sites.

yes, those lists are crucial. I tried finding a program last night
from the comp.sources.x archives, and it was nearly impossible - the
only thing to go by is a short cryptic name. Do *you* know what
"bricons" does, solely on the basis of the name?

The problem is that making these lists takes work. The contrib listing
was made as a volunteer effort, and it is pretty good, although
spotty. There is no listing for comp.sources.x.

What's needed is for someone to agree to make a listing of all X
software and maintain it. But that's a lot of work - unless someone
volunteers to be magnanimous it's not going to happen.
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: steve@enterprise.den.mmc.com (Steve Gilbert)
Subject: Color Correction using XV
Keywords: xv, colors
Organization: Martin Marietta
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:22:36 GMT

I have been running xv on my machine locally as well as from a remote host
though the X-term on my local machine.  I have found the colors don't
seem to be correct.  Especially the yellow.  It seems to come out a sort
of magenta color.  I know that I can change the color map using the color
tool in xv.  What I'd like to do is find a way to get a "gif" or some
other method that would give me a color wheel or color bar chart so that I
would have known "True" colors to work from.  That way I should be able
to come up with a color correction for my particular system.  Anyone have
any ideas ?

Followups would be fine, direct e-mail replys would be even better.

Thanks, in advance.
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  \                        Martin Marietta Astronautics, Denver
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From: senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu (David M. Senseman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Announcing xmgr Release 2.09 (aka ACE/gr Motif)
Keywords: Graphing, XY plotting
Date: 31 Aug 92 00:32:21 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <42126@ogicse.ogi.edu> pturner@amb4.ese.ogi.edu (Paul J Turner) writes:
>
>Announcing xmgr Release 2.09
>Xmgr is an XY-plotting tool for UNIX workstations using 
>X or OpenWindows. There is an XView version called xvgr for 
>Suns. Collectively, these 2 tools are known as ACE/gr.
>Compiling xmgr requires the Motif toolkit version 1.1
>and X11R4 - xmgr will not compile under X11R3/Motif 1.0x.
>
>Xmgr has been compiled and tested on:
>
> SGI Indigo - Irix 4.0.1 X11R4/Motif 1.1
  ^^^^^^^^^^
At least with my Indigo running 4.0.5, the "make" seem to go OK but
the "make install" bombed. Another example of IRIX "install" vs BSD "install"?

Anyone know what's going to happen to the BSD-style "install" under 
Solaris 2.x? Is it going to converge with IRIX (AT&T?) "install" or
will the two versions still be incompatible?
-- 
David M. Senseman (senseman@lonestar.utsa.edu)
Division of Life Sciences
The University of Texas at San Antonio 
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: kbornhor@bernini.helios.nd.edu (keith bornhorst)
Subject: xnlock.3
Reply-To: kbornhor@bernini.helios.nd.edu (keith bornhorst)
Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:32:45 GMT

I have a copy of xnlock  but after extracting everything from the .tar file
I cannot seem to find the correct way of putting my own password into the 
xnlock.c code.  Could anyone let me know where and how to do this?

Thanks!

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From: khera@cs.duke.edu (Vivek Khera)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Re: Help with Xview3 and Calentool???
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:45:00 GMT
Followup-To: comp.windows.x.apps
Organization: Duke University CS Dept., Durham, NC
In-reply-to: fhl@milton.u.washington.edu's message of 2 Sep 92 06:30:55 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 1351332030ebbf56894e71794220ab08

In article <1992Sep2.063055.2703@u.washington.edu> fhl@milton.u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff) writes:

   2) When I start calentool, I get the messages:
	   ld.so: warning: /usr/X11R5/lib/libxview.so.3.1 has older 
		   revision than expected 2
	   ld.so: warning: /usr/X11R5/lib/libolgx.so.3.1 has older 
		   revision than expected 2
      I also get the second message upon starting olwm.  What's going on
      there?  What should I do about it?

chances are since you are on a Sun anyway, that you already have the
OpenWindows libraries installed in /usr/openwin/lib.

   3) Under twm, the calentool icon is notably uninspiring (an empty
      box).  Is there some way to get this to work properly under twm.
      Note that the icon looks like a cute little calendar under olwm.

this is a bug in the xview3 libraries.  it worked just beautifully
under xview2, but when we upgraded to xview/OpenWindows version 3, it
got all messed up with the icon thingy.

is anyone working on fixing the icon handling in calentool to fix this
problem?  for me, at least, the icon shows up properly when the
application first starts.  if i close the window using the menu
button, the icon becomes blank, but if i close the window using a TWM
function, the icon stays normal.  also, if the window opens itself for
a reminder, then the icon is lost.

   4) Also under twm, is there any way to get the sun/moon subwindows to
      properly return to their iconified form within the calendar window?
      In twm, when I want to get rid of them, they turn into standard
      window icons, dissociated from the calendar window.  This happens
      only under twm, not olwm.

when you close the main window, they will go away.  alternatively, you
can send them a dismiss message using a twm menu function f.delete.

   5) Is there some clever way to make a recurring appointment for
      certain days of the week (e.g. MWF appointments)?

none i know about.

   Thanks for the help!

   -Dean
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From: schurech@nightcrawler.fnal.gov (kurt schurecht)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
Subject: Looking for mouse button viewer app
Keywords: x mouse viewer
Date: 25 Aug 92 21:11:40 GMT
Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia IL

I am looking for an X windows application that will pop up a window with
a picture of the three mouse buttons.  When a button is pressed anywhere
on the desktop, the corresponding button will be highlighted.  Are there 
any applications out there similar to this?

Thanks,

Kurt Schurecht

schurech@fnald.fnal.gov
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: akerson@deimos.srg.af.mil (Pete Akerson - akerson%srg@uunet.uucp)
Subject: Re: Automated Testing of X Apps.
Organization: ARINC Research, Corp.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 13:46:33 GMT



 We've seen with XRunner, we're getting a copy of Preview X, also there
is something called Cap Back X, dunno 'bout that one. 
FYI, Ferret uses propriatary hardware, and gave us lots of problems in
this mostly SCO-unix shop.

Your mileage may vary.
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps
From: mycroft7@vesta.unm.edu 
Subject: Repost getweather
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 18:19:03 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: usa


     Could someone please repost the "getweather" program?  It retrieved the
current weathermap of the U.S.

Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.apps,comp.windows.open-look