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From: ccday@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Coy C. Day)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Question: function key mapping
Date: 24 Jul 92 11:01:20 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Lockheed Missiles and Space Co.

Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 18:17:48 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Jul23.181748.17993@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Is there any way to define mappings from the function keys to
combinations (e.g. Ctrl-U, Alt-P) or sequences of keystrokes, external
to client applications?  Modifying source code is not a solution,
since the function keys will be used with a commercial CAD package.
Ideally this package would provide a mechanism for defining function
keys, but that's not the case.

If there are solutions that are somehow specific to a particular
window manager, I am especially interested in olwm or twm but would
like to hear about mwm as well.  Any ideas would be appreciated.


Clif Day                   ccday@austin.lockheed.com
Voice: (512) 386-4330      Fax: (512) 386-2724
Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., Inc., Austin Division
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From: larry@ducktales.med.ge.com (Larry Landwehr)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: One program - two displays - two cursors
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:55:12 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: GE Medical Systems, Magnetic Resonance

Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 14:30:27 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Jul27.143027.7872@mr.med.ge.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


How can one program be displayed on the screens of two networked
machines at the same time with two cursors active? Both cursors
independently operated; one by one user and one by the other?
From: vaisanen@joyds2.joensuu.fi
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: X and MIME based mail readers?
Date: 23 Jul 92 09:40:58 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Date: 17 Jul 92 20:14:00 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Jul17.101452.9501@cs.joensuu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


Hi!

I short question:

What are the public domain X Window based mail readers that can handle MIME?
The platforms I'm interested in are SunOS 4.x (also Solbourne) and ULTRIX 4.x.


Thanks,
	Jarmo


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From: J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk (Jim Wight)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Scrolling in asciiTextWidget
Date: 25 Jul 92 22:56:56 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Via: uk.ac.newcastle; Sat, 25 Jul 1992 20:37:05 +0100
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 20:37:01 BST
Message-Id: <AA22434.9207251937.blagdon@uk.ac.newcastle>
Reply-To: J.K.Wight@newcastle.ac.uk

starcker@vipunen.hut.fi (Vesa Starck) writes:
>  I have an Athena's asciiTextWidget, which has just one 
> line text. My problem is that I want to scroll the widget 
> without scrollbar.

I have seen that question asked a number of times but I have not seen
a solution. Therefore, when I came to want the behaviour I decided to
do something about it. The outcome is a widget that superficially
behaves like a text widget, but in fact is an AsciiText widget inside
an R5 Porthole widget, i.e. scrolling is achieved by moving the text
widget around underneath.

A version of this ScrollingText widget is already available in the 3.0
beta distribution of my aXe editor on export.lcs.mit.edu. It is used
as the filter and filename fields of the FileNominator file selector
widget. A new version will appear with the release of aXe 3.0 proper,
which hopefully will happen within the next 7 days if no last minute
problems crop up. 

Jim
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From: stumpf@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Markus Stumpf)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Bug in editres
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:52:02 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany

Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:00:05 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Jul27.160005.476@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


In article <24178@castle.ed.ac.uk>, mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Gordon) writes:
|> Sun 4, SunOs 4.1.1, X11R5 pl13.
|> 
|> Start editres and xfontsel, select "Get Widget Tree" and click on
|> xfontsel.  Select "Get Widget Tree" again and click on the editres
|> window.  Editres then displays a widget tree consisiting of a mixture
|> of the editres and xfontsel widgets.  Editres displays it's own
|> widgets correctly if no other clients have been displayed beforehand.

:-) I don't think this is a bug!

The whole widget tree of the xfontsel application is displayed as
single widgets within the TREE-widget as parent. This TREE widget is a widget
in the Editres application!
Thus each widget of the xfontsel application has it's expressen in a
command widget inside the editres application!
If you now select the editres application's widget tree, you recursivly
get the editres AND the already existing widgets for the xfontsel application!

Ciao
	\Maex
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From: draz@tochna.technion.ac.il (David Raz)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Athena Widgets /Text widgets
Date: 22 Jul 92 04:40:42 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Technion, Israel Inst. of Technology

Date: 21 Jul 92 17:23:18 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Jul21.172318.29447@discus.technion.ac.il>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <1992Jul20.183154.19717@ucunix.san.uc.edu>, gregortj@ucunix.san.uc.edu (TONYA JEANETTE GREGORY-RAPP) writes:
|> How do you save files using XawAsciiSave();  This function needs
|> the AsciiSourceObject.  I do not know how to point to it because, I did not
|> create it.  I think it is a child of Text Widget.  I am able to point to
|> the Text Widget.
|> 
|> Thank you,
|> 
|> Tonya
|> 
|> 

Simply - the AsciiSourceObject is a resource of the Text widget.
use something like:

Widget src;

XtVaGetValues(textwidget,
                XtNtextSource, &src,
                NULL);
........

XawAsciiSave(src);

hope this helps.
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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: how to use two keyboards and one screen?
Date: 25 Jul 92 04:57:21 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 18:30:39 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Jul24.183039.207@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <leavens.711567937@bambam.cs.iastate.edu>, leavens@cs.iastate.edu (Gary Leavens) writes:

> For various reasons, I have two keyboards hooked up to my sparc
> station.  I'd like to be able to use both and have all windows appear
> on the sparc-station screen (:0.0).

You will have to go hacking on either the keyboard driver in your
kernel or the X server.  The latter is both easier (probably) and more
aesthetically pleasing (IMO of course).

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
From: boggess@flatop.sanders.lockheed.com (Tim Boggess)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: vertical text
Date: 29 Jul 92 02:02:03 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Lockheed-Sanders - Embedded Processor Center

Date: 28 Jul 92 19:56:50 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Jul28.195650.2194@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

How do I put up vertical text in X?  Thanks in advance.


Tim Boggess
boggess@flatop.sanders.lockheed.com
(603) 885-6392
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: How to create a window which stays in front always ?
Date: 30 Jul 92 12:22:25 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA

Date: 30 Jul 1992 07:13:28 GMT
Message-Id: <1584qoINNats@early-bird.think.com>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <1992Jul30.003049.6704@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
>You probably don't really want this

Isn't this the usual way live video windows are implemented?  Such systems
allow a video input to be directed to a rectangle on the display.  An X
window is mapped to that area and always raised to the top.  No real X
output is done to this window -- it's just a placeholder so that other
windows will clip against it and mouse events can be directed at the
client.

I'll wager this is the kind of application the poster is working on.
-- 
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System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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From: tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Problems with X11R5p14 clients using gcc 2.2.2
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:38:27 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University

Date: 30 Jul 1992 06:15:52 -0500
Message-Id: <158j18INN6qv@hilbert.math.ksu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

I've built X11R5 fix 14 on a Sun3/80 running SunOS 4.1.1 using gcc 2.2.2.
I've defined the following in my site.def:

#define HasGcc YES
#define HasGcc2 YES
#define Gcc2BuildLibs YES

My only change to sun.cf was:

#define OSName            SunOS 4.1.1
XCOMM operating system:  OSName
#define OSMajorVersion    4
#define OSMinorVersion    1
#define OSTeenyVersion    1

#define SunPost411FCSLd	  NO

I haven't applied the 100170-6 patch.

Everything built fine.  However, programs that aren't linked with
libXt.so.4.10 fail when executed with the message

ld.so: Undefined symbol: _XtMalloc

This includes xset, twm, and xrdb.  When I add "-lXt" to the ld option
list the resulting executable works fine.

What's going on here?  Yes, _XtMalloc is defined in libXt, but why isn't
this a problem when I compile using cc and not gcc?  Is there a better fix
than relinking everything that dies to include -lXt?

Thanks in advance for any wisdom.

-- 
    Tim Ramsey, 913.532.6750
    Department of Mathematics
    Kansas State University
From: finnm@clas01.cebaf.gov (Michael Finn)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Memory Leaks with X...
Date: 28 Jul 92 02:02:21 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: CEBAF (Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility)

Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:30:29 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Jul27.193029.24503@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Hi, 
	We are having a problem with an X11R4/Motif Application we have 
written which is heavily graphics intensive.  We have a Memory leak we 
cannot track down and are looking for suggestions on ways to find it, or 
what it might be.  

	Another Question along this line that we have relates to Regions 
in X11.  There is a descrepancy between the way Young and O'Reilly say 
XIntersectRegion work.  An Example in Young's "X Window Systems Programming 
and Applications with Xt" shows the region intersection in the Line:  
	XIntersectRegion(region1, region2, intersection); 
to be created in the routine.  O'Reilly does not say where this region is 
created.  In practice it appears that the region intersection must be 
created with the Line: 
	intersection = XCreateRegion();
	The gist of my question is, what routines will create a passed 
region and what routines require me to create the passes region.  Any 
information on this and other places in X which could account for our 
bleeding memory are greatly welcomed.
	

			- Mike Finn
				finnm@clas01.cebaf.gov

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From: pfferrei@laplace.uwaterloo.ca (Paulo Ferreira)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: X resources
Date: 28 Jul 92 22:03:46 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Waterloo

Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 15:41:14 GMT
Message-Id: <Bs3vKr.72x@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


Could someone give be a brief explanation of resources.

Specifically, I don't  understand why some resources use a '*' and other
use '.' as separator characters.

Secondly, is the format for .Xresources and .Xdefaults files the same?

I read some books that talked about this topic but didn't explain the 
above well enough for me...

Thanks.

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From: wijkstra@fwi.uva.nl (Marcel Wijkstra (AIO))
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Writing your own Screen Saver under X???
Date: 21 Jul 92 18:53:08 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam

Date: 21 Jul 92 11:36:25 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Jul21.113625.27639@fwi.uva.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

stumpf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Markus Stumpf) writes:

>In article <1992Jul20.142330.22230@panix.com>, miner@panix.com (Ed Miner) writes:
>|> Yes I am wondering if anyone can help me? I am trying to write my own
>|> screen saver under X to replace the blank screen that comes up. I know

>The answer is simple and maybe frustrating for you:
>You can't!

I'm no Xpert, but I think you can.
Recently, someone posted 'xautolock' to comp.sources.x , of which I'll
enclose the forst few lines of its manual:
	
	NAME
	     xautolock - locks X display after a period of inactivity
	
	SYNOPSIS
	     xautolock  [-help]  [-version]  [-time   minutes]   [-locker
	     locker]
	               [-notify margin] [-bell percent] [-corners xxxx]
	               [-cornerdelay    secs]    [-cornersize     pixels]
	     [-noclose]
	
	DESCRIPTION
	     When xautolock is started, it monitors the user activity  on
	     the workstation. When no activity is detected within minutes
	     minutes, the  screen  is  automatically  locked,  using  the
	     screen  locker  specified with the -locker option. xautolock
	     is capable of managing multiheaded displays.

And indeed, it does...

So, if you 'xautolock -locker "xlock -mode blank -nolock"', you have another
screensaver.

Marcel.
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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: Kills from Window Manager
Date: 30 Jul 92 08:21:45 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 00:45:40 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Jul30.004540.7641@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <14ptagINNrdo@early-bird.think.com>, barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
> In article <1992Jul24.182031.29532@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
>> In article <14b03iINN1kn@early-bird.think.com>, barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>>> When I use f.delete on windows of clients that don't implement the
>>> protocol, twm beeps at me.
>> In that case, then you need to fix twm or your menus: [...] or your
>> menus, if f.delete is supposed to be "send WM_DELETE_WINDOW if
>> requested" (because that's not the operation you want).
> The twm man page [says that the latter is the case].

> I wasn't complaining about the beep; I think it's the right thing.  I
> don't know about you, but I don't want my window manager
> automatically upgrading an attempt to delete a single window into an
> operation that will probably crash the application

Why not?  If the application doesn't participate in WM_DELETE_WINDOW,
it is telling the window manager that it's perfectly willing to be
XKillClient()ed.  (Remember, we were talking about simple apps that
have only one top-level window and need to do no particular cleanup
when dying.  An application that does multiple top-level windows but
still doesn't do WM_DELETE_WINDOW is IMO broken badly enough that I'm
willing to ignore its existence.)

None of this affects, as far as I can see, my point that there is no
need for a simple application (as defined in my parenthetical note last
paragraph) to participate in WM_DELETE_WINDOW.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
From: brself@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ben Self)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Trapping BadWindow Errors?
Date: 28 Jul 92 01:10:49 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science

Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:48:24 GMT
Message-Id: <brself.712270104@hal>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


When I began looking for ways to safe-guard my communications sent via
XSendEvent I ran acrossed the following entry in XFAQ:

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: 132)  How do I check whether a window ID is valid?
> My program has the ID of a window on a remote display. I want to check whether
> the window exists before doing anything with it.
> 
>         Because X is asynchronous, there isn't a guarantee that the window 
> would still exist between the time that you got the ID and the time you sent 
> an event to the window or otherwise manipulated it. What you should do is send
> the event without checking, but install an error handler to catch any
> BadWindow errors, which would indicate that the window no longer exists.
> This scheme will work except on the [rare] occasion that the original window
> has been destroyed and its ID reallocated to another window.
> 
> [courtesy Ken Lee (klee@wsl.dec.com), 4/90]
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

This is a great suggestion; unfortunately, the documentation for the XError
interfaces is frightfully *unclear* and *unspecific*.  

Could someone please outline the specifics that are required to trap
BadWindow Errors (preferably from a given widget or procedure)

and tell me which of the various error interface mechanisms are involved:

  Xt:
         XtAppErrorMsg
         XtAppError

   Xlib:
         XSetErrorHandler
         XSetIOErrorHandler


Great appreciation in advance (I bow to the wizards of all they survey)
From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: pc xterm
Date: 30 Jul 92 06:42:20 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines

Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 23:43:30 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Jul29.234330.4726@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

In article <9207231941.AA20053@enet-gw.pa.dec.com>, mek@hydrox.enet.dec.com (Mark Klamerus) writes:

> I'm looking for an xterm which understand the ANSI and DOS extensions
> for terminal characters.  I would like to use this for dialing up
> bulletin boards and getting all the colors and characters they use.

Might want to look at mterm.  It does a pretty good ANSI X3.64, with
(if you ask for it) DEC extensions.  Given a detailed spec for
ANSI.SYS, it'd be easy to drop in an emulator module for that; it'd
probably amount to mostly ripping stuff out of the existing ANSI
module.

(To get mterm: anonymous ftp to larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (132.206.1.1),
in X/mterm.src, get mterm.README and read it for more info.)

					der Mouse

			    mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
From: da188@city.ac.uk
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Re: X Server for MS-Windows
Date: 30 Jul 92 13:50:57 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Workstation Div., Supermicro Systems Group, Sony Corporation

Via: uk.ac.city; Thu, 30 Jul 1992 11:05:59 +0100
Message-Id: <AA28239.9207301005.Euston@uk.ac.city>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 11:05:29 BST
Reply-To: da188@city.ac.uk
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]

>Is there such a thing? That is: an X-windows server that runs under 
>MS-Windows 3.1 as a Windows app, i.e. not in a DOS box. Such a product
>would be particularly valuable if source code were obtainable.

There are quite a few of software packages that implement an X server running
under Windows3, the only problem being that they are commercial releases.
Check out products from Desqview and HummingBird amongst others...

Aj.
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From: ng@ee.tamu.edu (Kit-Tong Ng)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: memory buffer full?
Date: 24 Jul 92 02:17:44 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: Texas A&M University

Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 14:56:35 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Jul23.145635.29774@tamsun.tamu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x

Howdy:

Hope that some kind soul out there can help me up with the
following error message:

The message pop up in a dialog box and refused to quit untill I 
explicitly killed the process:

> Insertion failed - 
> The memroy buffer is full.
> If this is an isolated case, you can cicumvent
> this condition by unloading the operation you just
> performed, storing the contents of the subwindow
> to a file using the text menu, and then redoing
> the operation.  Or, you can enlarge the size of 
> this buffer by changing the appropriate value in 
> the .Xdefaults file (Text.MaxDocumentSize).

What I was trying to do was:
> strcpy( cLine,"\n[ Xpos, Ypos ]:  Status of tree\n\n" );
> textsw_replace_bytes(DspTabularTxtWnd,0,TEXTSW_INFINITY,cLine,strlen(cLine));
> for( cnt=0; cnt<Len; cnt++ )
> {
>     strcpy( cLine," " );
>     sprintf(cXpos,"%5d",tmp[cnt].Physical_x);
>     sprintf(cYpos,"%4d",tmp[cnt].Physical_y);
>     sprintf(cStage,"%4d",tmp[cnt].stage);
>     strcat(cLine,cXpos);  strcat( cLine, ",  ");
>     strcat(cLine,cYpos);  strcat( cLine, ":  ");
>     strcat(cLine,cStage); strcat( cLine, "\n" );
>     textsw_insert( DspTabularTxtWnd, cLine, strlen(cLine) );
> }
> strcpy( cLine, "\n|****************************|\n");
> textsw_insert( DspTabularTxtWnd, cLine, strlen(cLine) );

what bug me is that the error msg will not appear if the number of 
text displayed ( i.e. numerical value of Len ) is small.

Is there any way I can solve this problem??
Thanks in advance.

Have a good day.

kit@Napolean.tamu.edu
STARR Laboratory
Department of Rangland Ecology and Management
Texas A&M Unviersity
College Station, Tx 77843-2126
(409) 845-1553.
From: ahj1@quads.uchicago.edu (andrew jaffe)
Newsgroups: fj.mail-lists.x-window
Subject: Font formats
Date: 25 Jul 92 15:49:52 GMT
Distribution: fj
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations

Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:40:17 GMT
Message-Id: <1992Jul24.184017.20945@midway.uchicago.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x


Well, I'm really surprised this isn't a FAQ, but I have a question about
font formats: like, what are the differences between them. I often hear
references to 'bdf' and the sun here uses 'pcf' and my terminal requires
'snf'. Is there any way to get the terminal (Visual TX100M) to read the
PCF fonts? Or will we just have to bite down and use the disk space (at
least it can read compressed files!)

thanks,



-- 
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Dep't of Astronomy and Astrophysics
University of Chicago
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