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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux
From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Making a 2-button mouse look like a 3-button?
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
Date: 3 Oct 92 16:05:43 GMT

Has anyone ever heard of an X program / modification to the X server
that will make a 2-button mouse act like a 3-button, by say sending a
middle mouse button event whenever both buttons are down?  Or having
some way of toggling one of the buttons between pretending it's a
middle and it's regular position?  I've looked at the server code in
mit/server/dix/event.c, and it looks like the place to do it would be
the function ProcessPointerEvent, but since my experience in X
programming is minimal (especially changing the server), I'd like to
know if anything like this is already available, or if not if anyone
has any insights as to how to do it.  Please reply via e-mail and I'll
post a summary.

-- 
The primary goal of science is to describe whatever scientists see as being
in need of description.

Wayne Hayes     INTERNET: wayne@csri.utoronto.ca        CompuServe: 72401,3525
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: aa@info.ucl.ac.be (Andre April)
Subject: problem with X386 1.2 and et4000ax
Organization: Computer Science Department, Catholic University of Louvain
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:37:48 GMT


I try to use the X386 1.2 server on a stock USL SYSV386 Rel 4 Version 4.
My video card is an Expert VGA based on the ET4000AX chip. The cristal is 
14.31818 and the various clocks seem to be generated by a chip numbered
ICS2494N. My monitor is an AOC CM-326 (specs follows). 

I can't get a stable image even with the Standard VGA mode.
I looked at the synchro signals with an oscilloscope and I was surprised !
With the standard clock of 25 MHZ ("640x480" 25 640 672 786 800 480 490 492 525)
the hsync is 2 micro sec large (in place of 4) and the horizontal frame length
is 16 micro sec (in place of 32) !

It looks like the oscillator is 50 Mhz in place of 25. I doubled the number of
dots horizontally ("1280x480" 25 1280 1544 1572 1600  480 490 492 525) and the
image was stable. I checked the number of dots on the screen : it was realy
1280 and not 640 ! I made some other test with different clock frequencies.
The conclusion was always the same the frequency is twice the selected one.
I also used the VDIAG.EXE program and chek the synchro signals for 640x480,
600x800 and 1024x768i. The results were good. Here they are

Resolution |  horiz frame (us) | hsync (us) | vertical frame (ms) |  vsync (us)
-----------+-------------------+------------+---------------------+------------
640x480    |         32        |      4     |        16.8         |    64
800x600    |         26        |      4     |        17.0         |    52
1024x768i  |         28        |      3.5   |        11.4         |   112


I also tried the Master VGA (also ET4000AX) with the same results.

How can I have true 640x480 to use it with an 640x480 LCD display for
retroprojection ? In other words how can I get the good frequencies ?
If VDIAG.EXE can do it X386 should too.


VGA card : Expert VGA  ET4000AX
     clocks reported : 25.2 28.4 32.7 36.2 40.2 45.1 31.6 37.8

Monitor : AOC CM-326
     synchro horizontal : 15 Khz to 38 Khz automatically
     synchro vertical   : 50 Hz to 80 Hz automatically
     Pixel Rate         : 40 Mhz


Thanks in advance,

         Andre.



Andre April
University of Louvain
Belgium
E-mail: aa@info.ucl.ac.be



Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: quandt@mcs213c.cs.umr.edu (Brian Quandt)
Subject: DIRT
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:16:01 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla

Anyone using DIRT out there?  What do you think.  Are there any other
public domain GUI builders?

Oh yeah, what is the latest version of this thing?  Where might I find
the lastest version assuming export.lcs.mit.edu does not have the lastest?

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: wjh+@andrew.cmu.EDU (Fred Hansen)
Subject: Newsletter from Andrew Consortium
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:41:12 GMT

The September, 1992 edition of the Andrew View, newsletter of the Andrew
Consortium, is available for anonymous ftp from 

	emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu  (128.2.45.40)

as ./newsletters/92Sept.d.   Subdirectories ASCII and PostScript contain
versions for the ATK-deprived.

If you haven't got ftp access, please send mail to 
	info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu

Fred Hansen
Director, Andrew Consortium

PS:  You can try AUIS remotely.  For instructions:
	finger help@atk.itc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles C. Lin)
Subject: Anybody use the -S option with xterm (was "Help with UNIX and X needed")
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 92 22:15:51 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Reply-To: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles C. Lin)

    My previous post ("Help with X and UNIX") asked the following
question.  Is it possible to have a program which will create
windows (as an independent "C-shell") and then issue commands
to that window as if you were actually typing the command?

    I was told that one possible solution to this problem had
to do with creating a pseudoterminal (which I had never heard
of before).  To do so, there is a -S option for X terminals
(i.e. the window that pops up with a shell -- xterm's).
As I understand it, you type in

          xterm -Sp13

   where p1 is the last two "letters" of a pty or a psuedo
terminal, and 3 is a "file descriptor" which one can refer
to that terminal.  So, if you look in /dev, you will see the
available "devices" that UNIX has, and there is a whole bunch
of them with the pty prefix.  So, presumably, the p1 would refer
to ptyp1.

   The only problem I am getting is that the xterm doesn't show
up.  It just hangs.   I would expect that the window should pop
up.  Now, xterm by itself works, so there's no problem with the
command.

   Or someone could help me with the -e option on xterms.  It
seems to have this annoying feature.  The window pops up, it
runs the command with the -e feature, and then it dies.  Is there
any sensible way to keep this window around?  I have already tried
putting the & (as in xterm -e ls &) and it still goes away
after completion.  It seems like a really silly thing for
it to do.  I would prefer that it just ran, then sit there
doing nothing when it is done.

   E-mail responses to clin@eng.umd.edu

--
Charles Lin
clin@eng.umd.edu
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: vk@ucs.att.com (Vijay Kothari)
Subject: XWD and XWUD source code
Organization: AT&T Universal Card Services, Jacksonville FL
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 11:59:38 GMT

Hello,


Is any one knows where i can get xwd and xwud source code.
Any ftp site or if someone has it and can send me through
e-mail.

Thanks


Vijay Kothari      e-mail :  vijay@ucs.att.com
From: jonallen@acsu.buffalo.edu (Jon J. Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X Servers for DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macs, and Amigas - NonUNIX
Date: 4 Oct 92 19:20:51 GMT
Organization: SUNY AT BUFFALO Computer Science

An X server for the Amiga would be GXFbase X11r4.  

I see that it was unlisted.  You can also run local X11 programs
on the Amiga's CPU along with other apps on other machines.

As far as I know, you can't run Amiga X apps across TCP/IP on other
machines.  (I hope this will change.)


-- 
--Jon-J-Allen--jonallen@acsu.buffalo.edu--Computer-Science--SUNY-@-Buffalo-NY--
  "New blood joins this earth and quickly he's subdued
   through constant pained disgrace the young boy learns their rules" 
                                              - METALLICA
From: suep@bbn.com (Sue Pawlowski)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: BadMatch error from XGetImage
Keywords: xview3 twm openwin sparc
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:09:24 GMT
Organization: BBN Systems and Technology, Inc.

I have an Xview 3.0 application which gets a "BadMatch" X error from
XGetImage(). The error only occurs when running the application with
TWM and when the application window is placed in such a way that it
is not completely on the screen. The same application runs fine under 
OpenWin.

According to the Xlib Reference Manual, the BadMatch error will occur 
if the specified rectangle goes off the edge of the screen - how can
I tell if that is going to happen before calling XGetImage ? 

Also, how can I tell at runtime which window manager - OpenWin, TWM, etc
is running ? 

Thanks,

Sue Pawlowski
suep@bbn.com
------------------------- code fragment --------------------------------
    static Canvas    	canvas;
    static Pixwin   	*can_pw;
    static Display      *can_pw_display;
    static Drawable     can_pw_drawable;
    static GC           can_pw_gc;
    static XImage       *can_pw_image;

    canvas = xv_create(image_frame, CANVAS,
			    WIN_BELOW,              control_panel,
 			    CANVAS_AUTO_EXPAND,     FALSE,
 			    CANVAS_AUTO_SHRINK,     FALSE,
 			    CANVAS_WIDTH,           1024,
 			    CANVAS_HEIGHT,          1024,
			    XV_X,                   0,
 			    XV_HEIGHT,              512,
		            XV_WIDTH,               xv_col (control_panel, 
							    65),
 			    0);
    
    can_pw = canvas_pixwin (canvas);
    can_pw_display  = (Display *)xv_get (can_pw, XV_DISPLAY);
    can_pw_drawable = (Drawable)xv_get (can_pw, XV_XID);
    
    can_pw_image = XGetImage (can_pw_display, can_pw_drawable, 
			      	512, 512, 
				32, 32,
				AllPlanes, ZPixmap);

Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: mctaylor@mta.ca (Michael C. Taylor)
Subject: Looking ToolKits that are on PCs too
Reply-To: mctaylor@mta.ca
Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada 
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 01:33:00 GMT

I am looking for a GUI Toolkit that can be used to create a GUI which
works for Amiga, X-Windows, and whatever else. Prefered language is C,
since that is what I normally use. Please be nice, I am normally an Amiga
programmer, not a X-Windows type of person.
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: fgreco@shearson.com (Frank Greco)
Subject: Review of Multiple LnF Toolkits?
Organization: Lehman Brothers
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 19:06:35 GMT

Does anyone have or know the whereabouts of a published (or posted)
comparison among the various multi-Lnf toolkits?  These toolkits
include such products as Visix Galaxy, ParcPlace OI, XVT, AT&T Moolit,
Aspect and Neuron Data OIT.

Thanks all,

Frank G.
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| email: fgreco@shearson.com        | email: fgreco@mercury.com          |
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.apps
From: brians@atlastele.com (Brian Sheets)
Subject: X based world clock anyone??
Organization: Atlas Telecom Inc.
Disclaimer: Views expressed do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 12:40:38 GMT

I am looking for an X based world clock. Does anyone have such an
animal???


brians
-- 
Brian Sheets				"TRUCK?! What truck?"
153 N. Hayden Bay Dr.			 
Portland, Or 97217			   -Raiders of the Lost Ark
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: Markku.Savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela)
Subject: Shared widget library (SunOS 4.1.3) with Gnu C 2.2.2? Possible?
Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 21:58:32 GMT
Reply-To: savela@tel.vtt.fi (Markku Savela)


  I have to write a Widget Libary, but would like to use ANSI C while
  doing it. Also, I would like to be able to make it as shared
  library. Is this possible with SunOS 4.1.* and Gnu C 2.2.2?

  I was planning to use the Imakefile and setup from the lib/Xaw as a
  template, how should I change the Imakefile to work with Gnu C and
  still produce the shared libraries?

  SharedLibraryCCOptions = -fpic  SharedThisAndThat... there seems to
  be so many of them... if someone has worked out a working
  combination, I would like to have a copy :-)

thanks,
--
Markku Savela (savela@tel.vtt.fi), Technical Research Centre of Finland
Telecommunications Laboratory, Otakaari 7 B, SF-02150 ESPOO, Finland
Xref: sparky comp.windows.x:17366 comp.windows.x.motif:6576
From: quinton@stna.dgac.fr (Marc Quinton STNA 7SU p8046 BD24)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Wanted: "bitmap gallery" utility
Keywords: bitmap
Date: 2 Oct 92 08:30:21 GMT
Organization: STNA 95 rue Henri Rochefort 91025 Evry Cedex 33(1)60.79.80.00


 
>     Hi folks,
> I need a utility which displays many bitmaps in a single window 
> (e.g. displays 25 30x30 bitmaps), preferably ALL the bitmaps contained 
> in a directory. Does such an animal exist?
> 

Just have a look at pub/bitmapView.tar.Z at ftp.stna7.stna.dgac.fr. This is
a motif application. You just have to modify Imakefile to accomodate to your site
and type :

	xmkmf
	make
	make install 		# if you need to install it

-- 
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|  /__ \  / __\  |   QUINTON Marc   | Technical Department of Civil Aviation  |
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: etlgtme@etlxd32l.etlxd (Grant McFarlane,XD/GEEC,GH)
Subject: Alt-z is a headache in OpenWindows3
Keywords: OpenWindows3 SPARC olwm
Reply-To: etlgtme@etlxd32l.etlxd
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 09:18:07 GMT

Hi Folks,

OK, so my last post was UGLY. I've started using a new News tool and it's page
width is > 80 chars. Hope this post is better :-)
I think I've got things pretty much sorted out now, so all I need to know is
how to un-map Alt-z from 'SuspendMouseless' and Alt-Z from 'ResumeMouseless'.
I've tried changing my .Xdefaults with the following:
           OpenWindows.SuspendMouseless: Control F1
           OpenWindows.ResumeMouseless:  Shift Control F1
but it doesn't work and olwm didn't report any errors at startup!? Have I got
the format right for the .Xdefaults file or am I barking up the wrong tree ??
Somebody help me please,
                       In Desparation,
                                     Grant.
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 _/      _/ _/        _/ _/          | Makes you wonder how much deeper they'd
_/_/_/_/_/ _/        _/  _/_/_/_/    | be if they didn't." (Steven Wright)
From: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Emu anyone?
Keywords: emu
Date: 30 Sep 92 09:45:02 GMT
Reply-To: trevc@reading.sgi.com
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA, USA


Are the Emu developers out there anywhere? I am looking for
versions of emu later than that available on export.lcs.mit.edu
(October 91). Was the development continued? Email to the suggested
address bounces (emu@pcsbst.pcs.de or emu@pcsbst.pcs.com - pcsbst.pcs.com
no longer seems to be around)

Thanks in advance,

-- 
--trevc--
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: kmo@sae.com (Mike Ovington)
Subject: Re: X regions: why or why not?
Organization: Software Architecture & Engineering, Inc.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 14:30:50 GMT

In article <1992Sep29.171244.2490@lsl.co.uk>, snail@lsl.co.uk writes:
|> In article <THOTH.92Sep27125200@beach.cis.ufl.edu>, thoth@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Robert Forsman) writes:
|> > 
|> >> I've noticed, however, that not much of the freeware
|> >> X software that I can ftp uses regions.  Why is this?
|> > 
|> >   I believe it's just that not many people know how to accumulate
|> > Expose events properly.  It's a darn shame too because programs like
|> > xdu really lose when you OpaqueDrag across them.
|> 
|> Could someone show me (and others :) ) how please? JUst curious....
|> --

Look at Xlib Programming Manual Volume One of the O'Reilly series.
An example code fragment is on page 72 in my edition, but just check the
index for:
regions
   coalescing Expose events

In our applications, smart redraws can make a huge difference in the
speed of the application.
-- 
________________________________________________________________________________
    Michael S. Ovington                         Template Software 
       uunet!sae!mikeo                   13100 Worldgate Drive, Suite 340       
        mikeo@sae.com                         Herndon, VA 22070-4382
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: shakeel@s3tech.com (Shakeel Mahate)
Subject: imake and psroff
Keywords: imake, psroff
Organization: S3 Technologies
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 22:44:19 GMT

Hi

I have a question regarding one of the variables in imake file

The variable TROFF has been assigned the utility "psroff"
Is psroff public domain software?
Where can I get it?

One more question on imake....

I am trying to use imake to build makefiles for a non X application
software?
Has anyone in the networld tried this before?
Maybe we can share some notes.

How does one build a SimpleProgramTarget with debug option on, or
for that matter any ProgramTarget?

Bye

-- 

Shakeel Mahate
Systems Engineer
S3 Technologies
Columbia MD 21045
410.312.3500.2166
shakeel@s3tech.com


From: shakeel@s3tech.com (Shakeel Mahate)
From: brians@atlastele.com (Brian Sheets)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X based finger??
Date: 28 Sep 92 17:26:23 GMT
Organization: Atlas Telecom Inc.
Disclaimer: Views expressed do not necessarily represent those of my employer.

I am looking for an X based finger that would come up with not only finger
information but a picture of the fingered person. 

Does such an animal exist?



-- 
Brian Sheets				"TRUCK?! What truck?"
153 N. Hayden Bay Dr.			 
Portland, Or 97217			   -Raiders of the Lost Ark
From: mcw@ukc.ac.uk (Mark Wheadon)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Ups - The Song!
Date: 5 Oct 92 09:36:05 GMT
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

Ups: you've used the debugger, now hear the song!

For a while now, a song I wrote/performed about, of all things, the ups
debugger has been available in a crude digitized form (SPARC audio
format) from many ftp sites around the world (e.g. contrib/ups-song.{au,ms}
at export.lcs.mit.edu).  To quote a couple of responses I had shortly
after making it available via ftp (names changed to protect the
innocent :-)

	From: someone@mprgate.mpr.ca
	Message-Id: <9208181722.AA21787@ducati.mpr.ca>
	To: mcw@ukc.ac.uk
	Subject: UPS Song...

	Hi!

	I've just picked myself up from rolling on the floor, clutching
	my middle to hold back the pain from LAUGHING at the UPS song!


	To: mcw@ukc.ac.uk
	Subject: ups-song.au
	Date: Thu, 14 May 92 12:26:16 +1000
	From: someone@mlb.dmt.csiro.au

	BURT!!!!!     *** WOW ***
	That song is great! I can't believe it! We've just played it here
	(before 3 other grimacing scientists!!). Now that i've heard the
	song, where can i get the debugger??

The same song will shortly be available in glorious stereo on CD, as
part of the MUSENET '92 compilation - over two hours of music by USENET
readers on two Cd's for the grand price of $7 US + shipping.  The
deadline for first-run orders is 1 December and the CD's should be
shipped sometime that month.

To quote the ordering information (available via ftp as
anonymous@xcf.berkeley.edu:misc/netjam/doc/announcements/MUSENET/update):

        Actual Cost:
        $7 US for each 2-CD set.
        General Cost:
        $7 US base price for each 2-CD set, plus shipping:
                US:        $3.00 US for first set, $1.50 US for each additional
                Canada:    $3.50 US for first set, $1.75 US for each additional
                Europe:    $6 US for first set, $3 US for each additional
                Australia: $6 US for first set, $3 US for each additional

        Currency:
                Personal checks for US funds drawn on US banks - made
		         payable to ``Craig Latta''
                US Money Orders
                International Money Orders for US funds

The guy compiling, mastering and distributing this compilation is
Craig Latta <latta@xcf.berkeley.edu>

So... that's a double CD packed with music that includes the ups song,
all for $7 plus shipping - what are you waiting for!

Cheers,

bUrt

[Please note - I have no connection with this venture other then being
a contributor, and that no-one intends to make any money out of this.]
Subject: Re: set colors wo override user config colors?
Organization: University of Maine System
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
Distribution: world
From:    michael@maine.maine.edu (Michael Johnson)
To:      NETNEWS@MAINE
Date:    Tue, 06 Oct 92 17:29:53 EDT

In article <2297@ncr-mpd.FtCollins.NCR.COM> chrisw@chopin.FtCollins.NCR.com
(Chris Whitley) writes:
>I would like to set the colors of my application programmatically
>only if the user has not specified colors (on command line or
>in Xdefaults). I believe this should be easy, but am not sure how?

Someone else may have a better way, but you basically need a "flag" value
that you can check for after the user's defaults have been retrieved, and
substitute for if it is still present. Unfortunately, pixels have the
problem that they are unsigned and there are no possible values that you
can count on never to be allocated to a valid pixel.

What you can do is define your resource type as XtRString and use a value of
NULL as a sentinal. Then your program can perform the conversion to XtRPixel
explicitly by using XtConvertAndStore after accepting the user's value or
filling in one of your own.

Michael Johnson, VM Systems Group                     michael@maine.maine.edu
"I will choose the path that's clear. I will choose Free Will." -- Neil Peart
From: gaissmai@xwini.rz.uni-ulm.de (Karl Gaissmaier)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: xdm and IBM RS6000
Date: 1 Oct 92 11:11:46 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Ulm


In article <1992Sep30.171857.8096@athena.mit.edu>, ellis@athena.mit.edu (Steve Ellis) writes:
|> 
|>     I am having a problem with xdm on a IBM RS6000 (AIX3.2.2).  When
|> running in "debug" mode, everything appears normal, and the X terminals
|> work as expected. However, when running in the default daemon mode, the
|> login window appears on the X terminal, but upon logging in, the login
|> window disappears, but no X session is started. After 20 seconds, the
|> login window re-appears. Any pointers on what to look for, or specific
|> compile options required would be appreciated.

hmm

that looks like an error in the Xsession file, scan
the xdm-error file for errors.
first try an login with loginname and passwd, but after the passwd do not
press <return>, test the <F1> key, because when the Xsession file has the
following code:

.
.
case $# in
1)
        case $1 in
        failsafe)
                exec xterm -title "Help-terminal"
                ;;
        esac
esac

you can  login, when the error occurs in your personal
xsession file

it's also possible, that you start all processes in background mode,
thats wrong, you have to start the last process (e.g. twm or xterm)
in foreground mode,
and that is the session control process, when you terminate this
process, you also terminate your session. our last process in
the Xsession file looks like this:
.
.
        exec xmessage  -g +0+0 -title "Session Control" -n "Logout" \
                       -iconic "terminate Session ? " 

hope i could help you
Charly
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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
From: chuck@cbeaix2.atlsita.ORG (Chuck Hodgson)
Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
Organization: The Internet
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 14:53:38 GMT