From: hooft@fys.ruu.nl (Rob Hooft)
Subject: Some X11 clients I now have running, anyone else a list?
Keywords: X11
Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht,  The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 08:07:09 GMT

Hello NetWorld,

Because of a lot of hard work from linus, hlu and obz, it is now
possible for me to compile and run a lot of X11 programs without
needing more than a few tons of disk-space.

I have made a list of the X11 clients outside of those supplied by obz
which I now have more or less running on my system. Some programs have
notes saying some of the things I remember from compiling. Please feel
free to react via E-mail (suggestions, questions, your lists like this
one). I would like other people to share their experience with me.

Here is my list:


-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       144384 Jul 12 17:14 astrolog*
Calculate astrological birth-sheets. Also does other computations.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       148484 Jul 23 21:12 gwm*
General Window Manager. Is VERY customisable. I needed 'lex' to
compile this one, 'flex' didn't do it. It is rather buggy, but I don't
know whether this is my port to linux, or the status of the software.
The mwm-emulation (V1.1) has crashed a number of times, and the
twm-emulation sometimes clones the icon manager window. I am still
evaluating this one, so, if you have any information, please send it
to me. 

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33792 Jul 12 17:14 ico* The demo program. nice
if done "-softdbl -faces -p8". Fun to see that it moves much faster if
you can't see it (behind another window).

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        21504 Jul 12 17:14 kaleid*
Create nice kaleidoscopic images.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        13312 Jul 12 17:14 maze*
Demo program. Create and solve mazes in a window.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       197632 Jul 12 17:14 olvwm*
The Open Look Virtual Window Manager. Nice, because it is a virtual
window manager. Let your friends think you just bought a SUN(tm?).  
Compiled from the ported source from banjo.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        33792 Jul 12 17:14 oneko*
ported source from banjo. Really needs the shape extension. 
Fun for cat-lovers. Or dog-lovers.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        50176 Jul 12 17:14 spider*
Card game from MIT.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 rob      users      680178 Jul 25 20:01 tgif*
Looking at the size of this executable it will be clear that this one
is in its evaluation/debugging phase. Someone told me that its
quality makes 'xfig' fade completely.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       119812 Jul 26 17:38 vtwm*
Virtual Tab Window Manager. This is the one I'm currently using. I
think I'll have to recompile after getting LEX, although I did not
find any problem after hacking the FLEX version. I know it should 
have problems, I removed some subroutines.....

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        13312 Jul 12 17:14 xabacus*
Who needs to have lessons in usage of these famous Chinese
calculators? (I now see that it should be linked '-N')
 
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        13312 Jul 12 17:14 xantfarm*
Root window decoration.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        17408 Jul 12 17:14 xasteroids*
Game.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        82948 Jul 13 20:37 xboard*
Comes with xchess4.0. Needs a lot of memory when the computer plays
against itself. On an otherwise X-empty machine (xclock,1 xterm):
---------------------------------------------------
             total       used       free     shared
memory:      12132      11988        144        728
---------------------------------------------------

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         5412 Jul 23 21:49 xcb*
X-CutBuffer. A recent post to the netnews. Gives access to all 8
cutbuffers in the X server instead of only one.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        17408 Jul 12 17:14 xco*
Display the X color database in a window.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        21504 Jul 12 17:14 xcoloredit*
Just as it says.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         9216 Jul 12 17:14 xcolormap*
Just as it says.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         9216 Jul 12 17:14 xcuckoo*
Display a digital clock in the title bar of another window. Nice when
you're out of display space.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        25600 Jul 12 17:14 xdaliclock*
Animated digital clock.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         2268 Jul 17 21:42 xdebt*
The US-national debt, updated every second. Suffers from the floating
representation bug in libc2.2.2.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 tex      tex         46084 Jul 25 17:21 xdvi*
Up to patchlevel 15. You should really try this version, and not any
older one. This one contains a "grey" option, as in EmTEX under DOS,
and can create fonts when they are needed, as in dvips. The grey
option makes the text a lot more readable! Only change needed to get
it compiled was in xdvi.h, to #undef'ine HAS_SIGIO. In the Imakefile,
I put '-DGREY' '-DA4' and '-DMAKEPK' into the DEFS line, changed
'-DBMSHORT' to '-DBMLONG' and removed '-DMSBITFIRST'.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       349184 Jul 12 17:14 xfig*
Put figures in your LaTeX documents.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        99332 Jul 23 21:34 xfishtank*
Rootwindow animation. This one really is beautiful, but it brings my
486/33 to a load-average of 0.35 when running alone....
Running was a problem, until I noticed that the source code
mentions that it expects a 16 bit result for random. It runs like a
charm if this is changed to 32 bit, which can be done with an #ifdef.
 
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        29696 Jul 12 17:14 xgas*
Demonstration of the Ideal Gas law.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        21504 Jul 12 17:14 xgif*
display GIF images. This is before I knew of xv...

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        17408 Jul 26 10:28 xlander*
3-dimensional lander game. Needed a hack to get it compiled: I really
need to learn something about signals. How do I translate a 'sigblock'
call into Linux? Well, it runs ok without those...

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        41984 Jul 12 17:14 xlife*
Conway's life in the best version I've ever seen. Comes with excellent
examples!

-rwxr-sr-x   1 root     mem         13312 Jul 12 17:14 xload*
Display load-averages in a window. Got adapted source from banjo.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        50176 Jul 12 17:14 xlock*
Lock X-server. Adapted source from banjo.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        21504 Jul 12 17:14 xmag*
X-magnifying glass. from MIT

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        17408 Jul 12 17:14 xneko*
The oneko cat, restrained to a window. Adapted source on banjo.

-rwxr-sr-x   1 games    games       37888 Jul 12 17:14 xpipeman*
Game. Build pipelines.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        21504 Jul 12 17:14 xroach*
Root-window animation.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root         6420 Jul 15 22:04 xsplinefun*
Another very nice root window animation. Bring your X-server to
its knees!

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        17408 Jul 12 17:14 xswarm*
A swarm of wasps following a bee. Window animation. 

-rwxr-sr-x   1 games    games       21504 Jul 12 17:14 xtetris*
The famous block-building game.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        29696 Jul 12 17:14 xticktalk*
Tell the time in a readable way. Multi-lingual.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       521216 Jul 11 23:33 xv*
View just about any image format you could wish, including jpeg.

-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root        25600 Jul 23 22:30 xvier* 
Game: four in a row.  This is not funny: I think the complete
infallible strategy has been built into this program.

-- 
Rob Hooft, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, 
Chemistry department University of Utrecht, the Netherlands
hooft@hutruu54.bitnet hooft@chem.ruu.nl hooft@fys.ruu.nl hooft@cc.ruu.nl